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Raoul Dufy
Landscape, Villerville, 1930
The resort town of Villerville is located on the Normandy coast next to Trouville and Deauville and across the Seine River estuary from Le Havre, where Dufy was born. Dufy was impressed by the bright colors of Matisse and the Fauves at the Salon des Independants of 1905 and expanded his palette in kind. The calligraphic brushstrokes show a flair for the decorative -- appropriate since Dufy also designed textiles, ceramics, and architectural elements. |