The Entrance to the Port of Sainte-Adresse by Raoul Dufy

The Entrance to the Port of Sainte-Adresse - Raoul Dufy - Fine Art Oil Painting Wall Decor

About This Piece

The Entrance to the Port of Sainte-Adresse - Raoul Dufy - Fine Art Oil Painting Wall Decor 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.

The Story Behind the Painting

L'entrée du port de Sainte-Adresse, 1950
Oil on canvas

In July and August 1906, Dufy traveled along the Normandy coast in the company of Albert Marquet. The two painted side by side in the popular resort towns of Trouville, Honfleur, Le Havre, and its smaller neighbor, Sainte-Adresse, the location of the present work. Dufy had grown up in Le Havre, spending much of his childhood and adolescence there, and both the port of Le Havre and the bay of Sainte-Adresse were to provide him with fixed pictorial reference points during his career. It was a year later, in 1907, that Dufy first introduced the motif of the fisherman on the jetty, employing the angles and curves of the rods to great effect in breaking up his composition and introducing into his horizontal landscapes a subtle note of dynamism. Dufy returned to the Normandy coast frequently throughout his life, as his childhood on the coast had instilled in him a great love of the sea.

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