Another good reason to visit Normandy! See Raoul Dufy Special exhibition...
/Raoul Dufy is taking pride of place in Le Havre MuMa which currently presents nearly 90 of his works in a special exhibition. Those include artworks from MuMa’s collection as well as from major public collections such as those of the Centre Georges Pompidou and the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, many fine art museums in France and Belgium, the Gemeentemuseum and Singer Laren in the Netherlands andincluding Milwaukee Art Museum in the USA, in addition to numerous private collections from countries including Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Luxembourg, Switzerland and the USA.
Raoul Dufy was born in Le Havre in 1877. It was there that he trained and took his first steps as an artist. Its maritime setting provided subjects for many of his works and this city embodied his successive explorations of the field of light and color, from his early Impressionist works to his final Black Cargo Ships series via his early attraction to Realism, Fauvism, the influence of Cézanne and what could be called his “blue period” between the two world wars. Dufy remained moored to Le Havre throughout his life. It was his ideal city - a landscape of the mind that supplied his favorite subjects.
