The Red and Blue Quintet by Raoul Dufy

The Red and Blue Quintet - Raoul Dufy - Canvas Wall Art

Product Overview

Looking for fine art oil painting with real brushwork? The Red and Blue Quintet is reproduced by hand in oils on artist-grade canvas after Raoul Dufy. The result is a piece of fauvist oil painting wall decor that anchors a dining room and rewards a closer look.

The Story Behind the Painting

Le quintette rouge et bleu, 1948
Oil on canvas

The subject of music first appeared in Dufy's oeuvre as early as 1902 and is explored further in his Cubist years and, later, in the 1920s, but it was not until the 1940s that the artist explored the motif in all its variety with the close observation and eye for detail which one associates with his series of horse racing and boating pictures. Dufy often attended the rehearsals of the Société du Conservatoire des Concerts Colonne, making innumerable sketches of the musicians, their instruments and the endless variation of movement and expression which he would then employ in his finished compositions. Dufy was particularly concerned with the depiction of painterly rhythm and movement, creating harmonies and cadences that echo the creation of the music within. Dufy's friend Pablo Casals told him 'I cannot tell what piece your orchestra is playing, but I know which key it is written in' (quote in D. Perez-Tibi, Dufy, London, 1989, p. 292).

Painted in 1948, Le quintette rouge et bleu depicts a smaller group of musicians than many of his large orchestral compositions in which the sense of aural grandeur is visually represented by a frenetic sense of movement among Dufy's musicians and instruments. By contrast the present work presents a calmer, more intimate scene in which the pictorial interplay of the musicians and their instruments reflects their harmonic relationships. Dufy's sense of couleur-lumière, his primary aesthetic preoccupation, where colour plays an integral role in both the composition and the overall sense and feeling of the finished work, greatly adds to our understanding of the piece and the mood of the music. 'Dufy reproduces the calm atmosphere of chamber music with consummate artistry. His series of Quintets (between 1946 and 1948) assumes the colour of each of the musical variations. Violet, red, blue, orange: the arrangement of the quintet is painted monotonally. Dufy understands music so well that he succeeds, through the subtle play of his style, colour and lighting effects, in arousing our emotions through his lyrical interpretation' (ibid., p. 298).

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 dining room.

100% Hand Painted on Canvas

Each canvas is painted entirely by hand with professional oil paints on artist-grade cotton canvas. No printing, giclée, or digital imaging is used at any stage, so the surface keeps the slight relief and color variation of real brushwork.

Product Details

• A true oil-on-canvas painting produced manually by our artists — not a mass-produced print.
• A generous 2-inch blank canvas border surrounds the image to simplify mounting.
• Studio-direct pricing and worldwide shipping on every fine art 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.
• Multiple low-cost carriers available, including DHL, UPS, FedEx and USPS.
• We stretch your canvas onto wooden bars at no extra charge, and can arrange custom framing.
• Before dispatch we email a digital proof so you can approve the finished canvas.

Where to Hang It

This fine art oil painting wall decor is equally at home in a residence, a boutique hotel, or a professional office. Its fauvist character makes it a safe, distinctive gift for anyone furnishing a dining room.

Ordering & Peace of Mind

In short: The Red and Blue Quintet - Raoul Dufy - Canvas Wall Art combines a fauvist composition, a 100% hand painted oil painting process, and the flexibility of made-to-order canvas sizes — a dependable choice for fine art oil painting and dining room wall art.