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Epsom, the Race (Epsom, la course) - Raoul Dufy - Fine Art Canvas Wall Art is part of our hand painted oil painting collection from the Raoul Dufy Paintings selection. Each canvas is worked by a trained artist, then inspected before dispatch — a practical route to owning fauvist wall decor at a fraction of gallery pricing.
1933
Oil on canvas
Dufy had experimented with the subject of horse races as early as 1913. His first paddock works were highly stylised watercolours, focussing on the audience of élégantes, dandies and jockeys attending the courses at Deauville. In the 1930s, with his discovery of the race courses at Epsom and Ascot, Dufy's compositions became more ambitious, as in the present work, in which Dufy captures the electric moment of the race itself, concentrating fully on the thrill of the race with a unique immediacy and panache.
Seen from a bird’s eye view, the pounding horses have an iconic quality which echoes all the way back to the wild horses of the Lascaux caves. Their vivid, ochre-brown is broken by the angular figures of the jockeys, mostly outlined in a rich blue. The famous grandstand at Epsom is also concentrated into a series of fierce horizontal and vertical lines, its geometry contrasting with the free-flowing animals. Dufy perfectly captures the excitement of the race and the exhilaration of watching these high-bred creatures move effortlessly through space.
Our artists reproduce this fine art composition in oil on canvas by hand, preserving the tonal range that makes fine art oil painting so sought after for a bedroom.
Materials matter for fauvist wall decor. That is why this piece is built on artist-grade canvas with lightfast oil colors, applied by hand rather than output from a printer, and sealed for long-term display.
Style it over a fireplace, behind a reading chair, or along a staircase. Wherever it goes, this fauvist oil painting wall decor adds the layered color that only a hand painted canvas provides.
Whether the search term is fine art oil painting, bedroom 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.
| Size | Price |
|---|---|
| 20 X 24 in | $58.48 |
| 24 X 36 in | $91.98 |
| 30 X 40 in | $123.48 |
| 36 X 48 in | $176.98 |
| 48 X 72 in | $329.48 |
The sizes shown are the reproduction canvas sizes we paint to order. The dimensions given in a work's description refer to the original artwork and will differ from the sizes offered here. Not sure? Read the size guide or e-mail us.
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Every canvas is painted by hand in oils on artist-grade stretched canvas, with an extra blank border left for framing. How to care for your painting.
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