Raoul Dufy Signed Lithograph (Anemones) 1953 Start Price USD 300.00 Current Price USD 300.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price USD 2,500.00 Reserve Price - Start Time Tuesday, August 26, 2008 End Time Tuesday, September 02, 2008 Location Ogdensburg, NY See more about ' Raoul Dufy Signed Lithograph (Anemones) 1953' Description Your are looking at a piece of fine art created by french fauvist Raoul Dufy. This is an original signed unframed watercolor lithograph print. Printed on Arches paper. It is alittle faded and there is some ghosting. But all in all it is in very good condition. I was told that it should be totally restored by a professional. No rips, tears or wrinkles. This is not a fake or reproduction! I had it studied by an art curator at a local college who insisted that it is an original print by Raoul Dufy and printed by Mourlot Note: Take a close look at picture # 3. It shows an embossed logo/watermark that is what I believe to be the printers mark. Not real sure what it means exactly. Maybe someone could enlighten me. It is unframed because I was told to take it out of the frame to prevent further ghosting or damage. Thanks for looking! Please read on; I will email detailed pictures upon request! Raoul Dufy's images have always been enjoyed for their beauty and celebration of life, but there is a depth unplumbed by museums until now. Many people have an image of Dufy as a watercolorist, who concentrates on regattas and horseraces. This exhibition, however, concentrates on his major series of oil paintings, which have never before been seen in this country. These works, made between 1901 and his death in 1953, reveal a unique strength and vision in Dufy's art, which may surprise those used to the stereotype of Dufy as a painter of lightness and sweetness. This exhibition, organized by the Norton Museum of Art's Chief Curator, David Setford, is the first major traveling show in the United States devoted exclusively to Dufy. Containing some 60 works mainly from American museums: the Norton Museum; the National Gallery of Art, Washington , D.C.; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Philadelphia Art Museum; with some works from French museums, such as the Musée d' Art Moderne de La Ville de Paris; the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, the Musées du Havre; and the Musées de Nice.This exhibition is generously underwritten in part by Wilmington Trust with additional funds provided by the Mr. and Mrs. Hamish Maxwell Exhibitions Endowment. Raoul Dufy: Last of the Fauves is organized and circulated by the Norton Museum of Art.Dufy was born in Le Havre in 1877. At the age of 15 he enrolled at the local arts school where he met Georges Braque. In 1900 the town of Le Havre awarded him a grant to study art in Paris. His interest in color began with the Impressionists and he admired works by Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro. He captured in broken brush strokes the shimmering light of Ste. Adresse, at the same beach that so captivated Monet in La Plage de Ste. Adresse, 1901. In time, Dufy desired to "convey not that what I see, but that which is ... my reality?"The Norton's Nude on a Pink Sofa, of 1902, shows Dufy's experimentation with color even before the first Fauve exhibition in 1905. This painting is possibly Dufy's first attempt to utilize a style that attempted to show his "reality," rather than just the surface of a subject. Dufy did not exhibit with Henri Matisse and his group of Fauves at that first show, but he was excited by their creative use of color and drawing. He developed his own theory of couleur-lumière, (heightened ambient color/light), retaining this as an integral element in his art throughout his career. In fact, he was the only Fauve whose work retained this brightness.Like Braque, Dufy's home-town friend and fellow Fauve, Dufy experimented with Cubism from 1907 on, utilizing flattened space and an emphasis on form. Unlike other leading Cubists, however, Dufy always used a bright palette throughout his career, while incorporating shallow space, angular shapes and flattened forms as exemplified in Vence, 1920 or Composition, 1926.Along with landscapes and the figure, Dufy was captivated by the theme of windows. As with Matisse and Picasso, Dufy loved to paint the view through an open window, to the landscape or seascape beyond. He was interested in the relationship between indoor and outdoor views, and, by extension, interior and exterior worlds. He treated both views with equal importance. Dufy enjoyed the views through windows at Le Havre and in Nice, capturing the coolness of northern France and the warmth of the south as seen in Open Window at Nice, 1928.Dufy's painting of his studio, often including nudes, show the artist assessing his career and life. Often, the decoration on the walls of the studio refer to his past works, and his own personal history. Such works express the soul of the artist in much the same way as a self-portrait expresses his features.By the end of his life, a new theme engrossed Dufy - the black freighter. Dufy believed that black was, rather than the negation of color, the color of absolute light. While some of Dufy's contemporaries used black to outline shapes, he used it as a dominant element in the composition, foreshadowing the American Abstract Expressionists.Upon Dufy's death in 1953, Matisse proclaimed that "Dufy's work will live." This exhibition of Raoul Dufy's oil paintings, and the concentration on his series of themes, shows why this was a true prophecy. Dufy stood alone among his contemporaries, choosing to live away from Paris, working out his own style. Dufy was a prodigious artist, turning out over 3,000 works on paper, fabric designs, and ceramics, as well as his oil paintings. It is in his series of landscapes, seascapes, figures, black freighters and windows that his true genius can be appreciated.The four city tour premiers at the Norton Museum of Art from March 27-June 6, 1999; then travels to the Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, Tennessee, June 27-September 5, 1999; the New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana, October 2-November 21, 1999; and the Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas, January 18, 1999-March 19, 2000.The exhibition will be accompanied by an illustrated catalog titled Raoul Dufy: Last of the Fauves. Included will be essays by David Setford, Chief Curator, Norton Museum of Art and Curator of this exhibition and Didier Schulmann, Curator at the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and illustrations of the works of art as well as a complete checklist of the exhibition."Wilmington Trust is pleased to partner with the Norton Museum of Art to make possible Raoul Dufy: Last of the Fauves to those in South Florida and to others at select venues throughout the United States. With customers in virtually every state in the nation, we join the Norton Museum of Art in their mission to meet the needs, fulfill the dreams and create the opportunities to expand one's horizons in the world of art," said Mr. Ted T. Cecala, Chairman and CEO. 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