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Nothing softens a home office like a painted surface. The Casino de Nice with Palm Trees and Basins 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.
Le Casino de Nice aux palmiers et aux vasques, 1926
Oil on canvas
Raoul Dufy s'installe à Nice en 1926-27, après un voyage au Maroc avec son ami, le couturier avant-gardiste Paul Poiret. Le choix, loin d'être innocent, de cette ville ouverte sur la Méditerranée a été motivé par le ?besoin d'avoir sans cesse sous les yeux une certaine qualité de lumière, un scintillement, une palpitation? (P. Courthion cité in Raoul Dufy, Genève, 1951, p. 66). Pendant les Années folles, l’artiste peint donc inlassablement cette ville qui borde la mer avec ses palmiers stylisés et ses silhouettes élégantes. Dans la présente ?uvre, Dufy peint le casino de la Jetée-Promenade, batiment sur pilotis construit à la fin du XIXe siècle dans un style néo byzantin, qu'il gardera comme sujet de prédilection jusqu’à la fin des années 1940. En effet, si cet édifice fut détruit par les allemands en 1944, cela n'empêcha pas l'artiste de le restituer jusqu'en 1947, illuminé par l'éblouissant feu d'artifice cl?turant le carnaval.
Caractéristique du style affirmé par l'artiste au milieu des années 1920, le présent tableau se compose essentiellement de grandes bandes horizontales ou verticales de couleurs vives arbitraires, dissociées du dessin fait au pinceau. De cette palette nait une déclinaison infinie de bleus éclatants que rehaussent des roses, des jaunes et des rouges orangés, sous l'éblouissante lumière méridionale.
Raoul Dufy moved to Nice in 1926-1927, after a trip to Morocco with his friend, the avant-garde fashion designer, Paul Poiret. The well-considered choice of this town overlooking the Mediterranean was motivated by the "need to have a certain quality of light constantly before the eyes, brilliant and shimmering." (P. Courthion quoted in Raoul Dufy, Geneva, 1951, p. 66). So during the Roaring Twenties the artist tirelessly painted this seaside town with its stylised palm trees and elegant figures. In this work, Dufy painted le casino de la Jetee-Promenade, a neo-Byzantine style building constructed on stilts in the late 19th century, a subject which would remain a favourite with him until the end of the 1940s. Although this building was in fact destroyed by the Germans in 1944, that did not stop the artist depicting it even until 1947 and often under the stunning firework display that ended the carnaval.
Characteristic of the distinctive style established by the artist in the mid 1920’s, this painting primarily consists of broad horizontal or vertical bands of arbitrary bright colours, divorced from the drawing made with the brush. This palette produced an infinite variety of startling blues and orange-reds, emphasising the dazzling Mediterranean light.
Our artists reproduce this landscape composition in oil on canvas by hand, preserving the tonal range that makes landscape oil painting so sought after for a home office.
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.
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| 20 X 24 in | $47.98 |
| 24 X 36 in | $77.98 |
| 30 X 40 in | $104.48 |
| 36 X 48 in | $149.48 |
| 48 X 72 in | $291.98 |
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