RARE Raoul Dufy Poster from Musee de Arts Decoratifs 1952 Poster PARIS Start Price USD 349.00 Current Price USD 349.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Thursday, August 28, 2008 End Time Sunday, September 07, 2008 Location Alhambra, CA See more about 'RARE Raoul Dufy Poster from Musee de Arts Decoratifs ' Description Raoul Dufy (French, 1877-1953) Raoul Dufy was one of the most popular artists of the first half of the twentieth century. He was also popular with the critics, winning the prize for painting at the 1952 Venice Biennale. He was drawn successively to Impressionism, Fauvism, worked with Braque in the first decade of the century before coming under Cezanne's spell, before finally synthesizing his own personal style in the 1920s. He was one of Ambroise Vollard's stable of artists (along with Renoir, Rouault, Chagall, and many others).  (This paragraph courtesy Spaightwood Gallery in Massachusetts)Bio below from askart:Raoul Dufy was born on June 3, 1877 in Le Havre, France and studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, as well as with Othon Friesz and Lhuillier. Although inspired by Matisse and resembling him in his devotion to rhythmic line, pure color and decorative effects, Dufy was a painter of great independence and originality. During the first half of the 20th century, the Fauves, the Cubists, and the Surrealists dominated the art of France. Throughout all of these developments, Dufy went on painting the most highly civilized subjects he could find, the elegant holiday places and events of the rich.Dufy's palette and his taste for beauty eventually led him to the world of fashion and fabric design. He formed a close relationship with the couturier Paul Poiret, for whose fashion house he designed a logo; he also designed silk fabrics. This association bought him financial security. He eventually became one of the most sought-after illustrators of his day and designed sets and costumes for the theatre as well as upholstery and wallpaper.One of the largest paintings of modern times was the gigantic mural done by Raoul Dufy for the pavillion of electricity at the 1937 International Exposition in Paris. The finished work, depicting the history and importance of electricity to the 20th century, was 197 feet wide and 33 feet high. Dufy christened it "La Fee Electricite". After the Exposition closed, Dufy's mural, too big for exhibition, was stored away from public view in 250 sections. Dufy worried about its neglect and sought some way to keep his gigantic work on view. The answer was provided by a Paris pulisher, who proposed that Dufy reproduce the mural as a color lithograph. Dufy set to work in 1951 and shortly before his death in 1953 completed the most ambitious lithography project ever undertaken: three feet high by twenty feet wide, done in twenty-two colors and printed in ten sheets.He was devoted to America and the American scene, to which he paid two visits. The latter of these visits was in 1951, for medical treatment of his arthritis. Crippling as his ailment was, Dufy did not allow it to halt his work or to diminish his great joy in life. Treatment of his arthritis by injecting cortisone improved his condition so much that he was able to return to his farmhouse in Provence where he painted several hours a day. He died in 1953 at the age of seventy-five.Submitted August 2004 by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California.Sources include:"The Standard Treasury of the World's Great Paintings""Time Magazine", December 14, 1953From the Internet, Artchive.com"Life Magazine", date unknown Selected Bibliography: Guillaume Apollinaire, Le Bestiaire ou Cortège d'Orphée. Translated by Lauren Shakely. Illustrated with woodcuts by Raoul Dufy (NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1977); George Besson, Raoul Dufy (Paris, Ed. Braun et Cie, 1953); 100.  Pierre Camo, Raoul Dufy; l'enchanteur (Lausanne: Marguerat, 1947); Jean Cassou, Raoul Dufy 1877-1953. Catalogue par Bernard Dorival. Musée National d'Art Moderne Paris (Éditions des Musées Nationaux. Paris. 1953), Jean Cassou et al, Raoul Dufy , 1877-1953 (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1954); Raymond Cogniat,  Raoul Dufy (London: Tate Gallery, 1954); Raymond Cogniat,  Raoul Dufy (NY: Crown, 1962); Pierre Courthion, Raoul Dufy (Geneva: Pierre Cailler, 1951); Raoul Dufy: A Retrospective (Daytona Beach: Museum of Arts and Sciences, 1979); Manuel Gasser, Raoul Dufy 1877 - 1953. Welt in Farbe Taschenbücher der Kunst  (München: Desch Verlag, 1955); Maximilien Gauthier, Raoul Dufy (Paris: Flammarion, 1955); Fanny Guillon-Lafaille, Raoul Dufy. Catalogue raisonne des aquarelles, gouaches et pastels. 2 volumes (Paris: Louis Carre, 1981 & 1982); Maurice Laffaille, Raoul Dufy: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint. 4 volumes  (Genève: Editions Motte, 1972 - 1977; supplement 1985); Jan Lancaster, Raoul Dufy (Washington D.C.: The Phillips Collection, 1983); Dora Perez-Tibi, Raoul Dufy (NY: Abrams, 1989); Guido Perocco, I Maestri del Colore: Raoul Dufy (Milano: Fratelli Fabbri Editori, 1965); George Salles, Hommage a Raoul Dufy (Nice, France: Galerie des Ponchettes, 1954); René Ben Sussan, Raoul Dufy Paintings and Watercolours (NY:. Phaidon, 1958); Alfred Werner, Raoul DufyRaoul Dufy: A Retrospective (Sarasota, FL: Ringling Museum of Art, 1978). (NY: Abrams, 1973); William H. Wilson,Original poster from Musee de Arts Decoratif in Paris Printed in 1952 Size is 28 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches Condition is good -- some tape residue around all sides, but no tears.  Light soiling...but overall, for its age, it's in pretty good shape. Place a Bid!