Bouquet of Flowers in a Vase by Raoul Dufy

Bouquet of Flowers in a Vase - Raoul Dufy - Still Life Oil Painting

About This Piece

Bouquet of Flowers in a Vase by Raoul Dufy is one of those images that never dates. Our studio recreates it as a hand painted oil painting — textured, color-rich, and ready to hang as canvas wall art in a gallery wall, study, or reception area.

The Story Behind the Painting

Bouquet de fleurs dans un vase, 1907
Oil on canvas
Private collection.

Dating from 1907, Bouquet de fleurs dans un vase embodies many of the elements Dufy had been employing since the end of 1905, whilst working alongside Albert Marquet and Henri Matisse as a member of the Fauve movement in Normandy and Paris. Dufy’s Fauve period is widely considered the most formative and critical of his career, marking a new milestone of innovation in his practice, the artist exhibiting for the first time at the Salon d’Automne in 1906. They year 1907 saw a refinement of Dufy's work - he was by this stage paying more attention to composition, whilst his colours remained powerfully expressive and strong. The forms become flattened, and there is less desire by the artist to depict space - as is visible in the current picture, where the background has been flattened in deference to an emphasis on colour and a geometrical construction.

"(the) rapid maturing of Dufy's Fauve style is evident, from the beginning of 1907, by a desire for refinement and simplification, both in his composition and in his transposition of visible appearances...The palette, too, becomes internalized, finding new resonances: a harmony of colour, limited to blues and yellows, sometimes meeting in a sea-green..., is warmed by a yellow or a red...This simplification and lack of ornamentation allow Dufy to give his composition the greatest possible intensity. This desire to stress linear rhythm in the construction of his composition is seen in the works painted in 1907" (D. Perez-Tibi, Dufy, London, 1989, pp.31-32).

An important theme in traditional Western art history, the time-honoured still life genre evokes by its very nature a sense of beautiful transience, harking back to the 17th Century Dutch painters’ concept of the vanitas. A number of the Impressionists harnessed the theme of flowers with vigour, frequently in still life format as with Henri Fantin-Latour or within the thriving garden as with Claude Monet in Giverny, reflecting the changes of season and light. The irrepressible sensuality evoked by flowers was aptly investigated too by Pierre-Auguste Renoir who had a distinctive flair for exploring luxuriant texture, often likening the petals of a rose to the cheek of a muse, with the soft delicacy of his painterly style. The still life genre took on a new significance for Dufy and his fellow modernists, such as his co-Fauves Matisse and Vlaminck, in line with their rigorous formal and colouristic pursuits, and later, Picasso and Chagall, for whom flowers were specifically interconnected with the abundance and beauty of the South of France. In Dufy’s case, colour and composition align as the central subjects of Bouquet de fleurs dans un vase; vibrant and alive in an explosion of colour, his flowers radiate myriad shapes in a rainbow-like cascade, fresh and bursting out of their tall jug against the rich, warm crimson of the background.

The still life subject is rebuilt stroke by stroke in oil, giving the finished canvas the depth expected of fauvist oil painting wall decor.

100% Hand Painted on Canvas

From primer to varnish, the work is done manually on artist-grade canvas. The absence of digital printing is deliberate: it keeps the still life brushwork visible and gives the fauvist oil painting wall decor a museum-like finish.

What Is Included

• 100% hand-painted oil painting on artist-grade canvas — never a print or digital reproduction.
• Supplied with a 2-inch blank border on all four sides for flexible gallery wall display options.
• Sold studio-direct and shipped worldwide, with no intermediary markup.
• Available canvas sizes for this hand painted oil painting: 20 X 24 in, 24 X 36 in, 30 X 40 in, 36 X 48 in, 48 X 72 in.
• Custom sizes available: order this painting in your preferred dimensions.
• Flexible shipping through DHL, UPS, FedEx, USPS and partner networks.
• No-cost gallery stretching on wood bars, plus optional made-to-order framing.
• You will receive a photo of your completed painting by email for sign-off prior to shipping.

Where to Hang It

As gallery wall art, this canvas brings color and texture without visual noise. It scales well from a small study to a large gallery wall feature wall, and it is a reliable choice when shopping for still life oil painting as a gift.

Ordering & Peace of Mind

Whether the search term is still life oil painting, gallery wall art, or fauvist oil painting wall decor, this hand painted canvas delivers the same thing: a real painted surface, made to your chosen dimensions.