Sailboats and Rowboats in the Port by Raoul Dufy

Sailboats and Rowboats in the Port - Raoul Dufy - Oil Painting

Product Overview

Nothing softens a hallway like a painted surface. Sailboats and Rowboats in the Port by Raoul Dufy arrives as a hand painted oil painting on canvas, offering the landscape detail, soft gradients, and tactile finish that landscape oil painting shoppers look for.

The Story Behind the Painting

Voiliers et barques dans le port, 1907
Oil and ink marks on canvas

At the Salon d'Automne in 1905, Raoul Dufy discovered the "cage aux fauves" ("cage of wild beasts"). He went on to experiment with Fauvism for several years. During the summer of 1907, accompanied by Marquet, Dufy painted the coasts of Le Havre and Sainte-Adresse. It may be one of those Normandy beaches that is represented here, with luminosity worthy of Derain's views of Collioure.

It was during this period that Dufy mastered the use of pure tones and the arabesque style which he would never abandon. In Voiliers et barques dans le port, the colours swirl in light blocks which barely meet. The rhythm of the painting swells the sails of the boats and expresses a joyful exhilaration. Dufy offers us a simplified but marvellously lively vision of a fishing port. The artist who would later say "I use colour as an element to create light" works here with reality and reflection, heat and cold, the gentleness of the pink and the acidity of the yellow which are reminiscent of the boldness of a Veronèse.

The painter removes the sky, enclosing his vessels in a tight frame. The perspectives are represented only by groups of parallel strokes, and yet the two-dimensionality of the canvass is interrupted by the verticality of the masts. Despite the geometry and density of shapes, Dufy's painting offers a vibrant and light composition.

The landscape 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

Oil on canvas remains the reference standard for fauvist reproductions. Our artists apply pigment by hand, blending the landscape tones directly on the surface for depth that a printed landscape oil painting simply cannot match.

Specifications & What You Receive

• Painted entirely by hand in oils on artist-grade canvas, with no giclée or inkjet process involved.
• An extra 2-inch blank border is left around all edges for easy stretching and framing.
• Studio-direct pricing and worldwide shipping on every landscape oil painting order.
• 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.
• Affordable delivery options via DHL, UPS, FedEx, USPS and more.
• No-cost gallery stretching on wood bars, plus optional made-to-order framing.
• Before dispatch we email a digital proof so you can approve the finished canvas.

Where to Hang It

fauvist canvas wall art is one of the easiest ways to warm a hallway. Pair this piece with natural linen, dark wood, or brushed brass, and let the hand painted surface do the rest.

Ordering & Peace of Mind

Browse our Raoul Dufy Paintings selection for related landscape canvases, or commission this landscape image in a custom size. Every order is a hand painted oil painting, never a printed poster.