Raoul Dufy - Nice, France - Grave of a Famous Person on Waymarking.com

[FR] né sous les prénoms Raoul Ernest Joseph le 3 juin 1877 au Havre et mort le 23 mars 1953 à Forcalquier fils de Léon Auguste Dufy et de Marie Eugénie Lemonnier.

En 1903-1904 et 1906-1907, Dufy séjourne à Martigues en Provence. Il peint une série de paysages représentant la ville et ses canaux.

Influencé par le fauvisme et en particulier par l’œuvre de Matisse, il travaille avec Friesz, Lecourt et Marquet sur des tableaux de rues pavoisées de drapeaux, de fêtes de village, de plages.

En 1908, prenant conscience de l'importance capitale de Cézanne au cours de la grande rétrospective de 1907, il abandonne le fauvisme.

Au cours de son premier séjour à Vence en 1919, les couleurs de ses tableaux deviennent plus vives et son dessin plus baroque.

Raoul Dufy commence à ressentir en 1937 les premières atteintes d’une maladie douloureuse et invalidante : la polyarthrite rhumatoïde.

C’est à Forcalquier qu’il meurt le 23 mars 1953 d'une crise cardiaque.

[EN] He developed a colorful, decorative style that became fashionable for designs of ceramics and textiles, as well as decorative schemes for public buildings. He is noted for scenes of open-air social events. He was also a draftsman, printmaker, book illustrator, scenic designer, a designer of furniture, and a planner of public spaces.

Raoul Dufy was born into a large family at Le Havre, in Normandy.

Henri Matisse's Luxe, Calme et Volupté, which Dufy saw at the Salon des Indépendants in 1905, was a revelation to the young artist, and it directed his interests towards Fauvism. Les Fauves (the wild beasts) emphasized bright color and bold contours in their work. Dufy's painting reflected this aesthetic until about 1909, when contact with the work of Paul Cézanne led him to adopt a somewhat subtler technique. It was not until 1920, however, after he had flirted briefly with yet another style, cubism, that Dufy developed his own distinctive approach. It involved skeletal structures, arranged with foreshortened perspective, and the use of thin washes of color applied quickly, in a manner that came to be known as stenographic.

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Dufy exhibited at the annual Salon des Tuileries in Paris. By 1950, his hands were struck with rheumatoid arthritis and his ability to paint diminished, as he has to fasten the brush to his hand. In April he went to Boston to undergo an experimental treatment with cortisone and corticotropin, based on the work of Philip S. Hench. It proved successful, and some of his next works were dedicated to the doctors and researchers in the United States.

Dufy died at Forcalquier, France, on 23 March 1953, of intestinal bleeding, which is a likely result of his continuous treatment. He was buried near Matisse in the Cimiez Monastery Cemetery in Cimiez, a suburb of the city of Nice.

Description: See long description. Date of birth: 06/03/1877 Date of death: 03/23/1953 Area of notoriety: Art Marker Type: Tomb (above ground) Setting: Outdoor Visiting Hours/Restrictions: 8:00-16:45-17:45 or 18:45 depending on the season Fee required?: No Web site: [Web Link]

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