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The Violin (Le violon) 1916 by Raoul Dufy is one of those images that never dates. Our studio recreates it as a hand painted oil painting — textured, color-rich, and ready to hang as canvas wall art in a gallery wall, study, or reception area.
1916
Oil on canvas
Dufy's style had undergone a radical transformation in the last years of the first decade of the twentieth century, largely in response to two main influences; Cézanne and the cubists had a spectacular effect on the structure of Dufy's paintings and his contruction of form, while the colour theories of the Fauves had a marked effect on his palette. At the same time his style was moving towards an ever personal aesthetic where form and colour combine in a systematic composition of vibrancy and fluidity. The present work is a spectacular example of this increasing freedom, in which the composition is at once balanced and explosive and in which colour plays an increasingly expressive and structural role.
The piano depicted in the present work was manufactured by Pleyel et Cie, a firm founded in 1807 by the Austrian composer Ignaz Pleyel (1757-1831), who had been a pupil of Haydn. The firm was continued by Pleyel's son Camille (1788-1855), a piano virtuoso who became his father's business partner in 1815. Pleyel et Cie made pianos for, among others, Frédéric Chopin and also ran a concert hall, the Salle Pleyel, where Chopin played his first and last Paris concerts and which still exists today on the rue du faubourg Saint-Honoré. Pleyel continues to manufacture pianos under the auspices of the Manufacture Fran?aise de Pianos.
Collectors often choose this fine art image when searching for fine art oil painting that feels substantial rather than decorative or disposable.
From primer to varnish, the work is done manually on artist-grade canvas. The absence of digital printing is deliberate: it keeps the fine art brushwork visible and gives the fauvist oil painting wall decor a museum-like finish.
As gallery wall art, this canvas brings color and texture without visual noise. It scales well from a small study to a large gallery wall feature wall, and it is a reliable choice when shopping for fine art oil painting as a gift.
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| Size | Price |
|---|---|
| 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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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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