Raoul Dufy, le miracle de l’imagination is an exhibition taking place at the Musée des Beaux-Arts Jules Cheret in Nice. From December 13, 2024 to September 28, 2025.
The Raoul Dufy exhibition, the miracle of the imagination
Venice imagined, by Raoul Dufy
“This exhibition dedicated to Raoul Dufy presents a vast selection of works, from the beginnings of his career as he followed the path opened by Cézanne, to the mature paintings with their inimitable style. It also highlights his work in engraving, textiles and ceramics. An immersion into the world of an artist who resolutely celebrates the miracle of imagination.“ Several rooms present paintings from Raoul Dufy’s different artistic periods, but also the diversity of his talent: some engravings, weavings, ceramics. In short, the exhibition offers a fine overview of Dufy’s works and his evolution.
Raoul Dufy (1877-1953) was trained in Normandy, where he painted extensively, then in Paris. He was influenced by the Fauvism and Matisse of this period, but was impressed by Paul Cézanne, and then the beginnings of Cubism. In 1911, he married Eugénie-Émilienne Brisson from Nice (to whom the Musée Jules Cheret owes many of its works by Dufy). It is safe to say that it was from 1919, during his stay in Vence, that he found his style of free drawing and joyful colors.
Color becomes the primary vehicle for his paintings. He paints the largest picture of its time, the Electricity Fairy, for the 1937 Exposition Universelle in Paris (now on view at the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris). Dufy illustrated numerous books (André Gide’s Les Nourritures terrestres in 1949, then Colette’s L’Herbier in 1950). He was honored and recognized in artistic circles (Légion d’honneur, prize for painting at the Venice Biennale). He died in 1953 in Forcalquier. His body was later transported, in 1956, to the Cimiez cemetery in Nice.
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