Raoul Dufy was a French Fauvist painter. Born in 1877, he developed a colourful, decorative style that became fashionable for ceramics and textile designs, as well as decorative schemes for public buildings. He is noted for scenes of open-air social events, as well as decorative schemes for public buildings.
He was also a draftsman, printmaker, book illustrator, scenic designer, furniture designer and a planner of public spaces.
Fauvism was an artistic style developed by a group of young French painters around 1904, one of whom was Dufy. It emphasized painterly qualities and strong colour over the representational or realistic values retained by Impressionism. The movement as such lasted only a few years. Dufy used this technique for almost all of his works, but it can also be seen in some of the works by Matisse and Vlaminck.
Marcelle Oury was a great friend of Raoul Dufy. Following his death, she compiled and published a portfolio "Lettres A Mon Peintre" ("Letters to my Painter"), paying 'hommage' to him, using some of Dufy's own works, and other works by close artist friends of Dufy and Oury.
The production was limited to 5000 numbered copies.
This lithograph is from Folio No 1364.
