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Raoul Dufy Biography
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1877 |
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Born: in Le Havre, France
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1891 |
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Studied at the Municipal School of Beaux-Arts, Le Havre, France
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1900 |
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Granted an annual scholarship by the Municipality of Le Havre, France
Studied in Bonnat’s studio at the Academy of Fine Arts, Paris, France
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1911 |
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Executed woodcuts for illustrations of « Le Bestiaire » by Guillaume Apollinaire
Introduced to the dress designer Paul Poiret, who helps him to set up a small factory for making fabric designs
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1930 |
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Awarded the Carnegie Prize for his canvas « L’avenue du Bois »
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1936 |
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Commissionned to paint the large mural for the Electricity Pavilion at the International Fair in Paris : 600 meters in size, making it one of the largest paintings in the world (now in The Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris).
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1937 |
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Became a member of the Jury of the Carnegie Institutes and goes on his first trip to the United States
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1952 |
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Won the first prize for painting at the 26th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
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1953 |
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Died: at Forcalquier, France
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2011
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Raoul Dufy, projets de Tissus, Galerie Fanny Guillon-Laffaille, Paris, France (solo)
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2011
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Galerie Fanny Guillon-Laffaille, Paris, France (solo)
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2010
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Dufy en Méditerranée, Musée Paul Valéry, Sète, France (solo)
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2008
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Raoul Dufy, le plaisir, Musée de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France (solo)
Raoul Dufy, Galerie Fanny Guillon-Laffaille, France (solo)
Destaques do Acervo, Museu de Arte Contemporanea da Universidade de Sae Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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2007
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Age of the Animal, Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Art for the classroom - school prints 1946-49, Pallant House Gallery, Chinchester, UK
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2006
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Un Regard Fauve, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
Tapestries, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL
Dufy, Galerie Fanny Guillon-Laffaille, Paris, France (solo)
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2005
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Von Spitzweg bis Baselitz - Streifzuge durch die Sammlung Wurth, Museum Wurth, Kunzelsau, Germany
Matisse and the Fauves: Color of the Century, Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA), Seoul, Korea
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2004
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Cubism or thereabouts, Grosvenor Gallery, London, UK
Dufy and Lebasque, Connaught Brown, London, UK
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2003
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Classic to Modern - French Works on Paper, 1800-1950, from the Permanent Collection, Los Angeles COunty Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
Raoul Dufy - Un autre regard, Fondation Dina Vierny-Musée Maillol, Paris, France; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nice, Nice, France (solo)
Raoul Dufy, du motif à la couleur, Musée Malraux, Le Havre, France; Musée d’Art moderne, Céret, France; La Piscine-musée d’Art et d’Industrie André Diligent, Roubaix, France (solo)
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2002
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Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nancy; Raoul Dufy, les peintures de la collection du Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne (solo)
Raoul Dufy, Galerie Boulakia, Paris (solo)
Exemplum del disegno europeo del Novecento, Galleria Open Art, Prato, Italy
Die Zeichnung, Galerie Ruf, Munich, Germany
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2001
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The Modern Woodcut, MFA - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA
Classics, Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
Raoul Dufy, Musée des Beaux-Arts d’Utsunomiya, Utsunomiya, Japan; Musée des Beaux-Arts Yasuda Kasaï, Yasuda Kasaï, Japan; Musée Municipal des Beaux-Arts, Takamatsu, Japan (solo)
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2000
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Raoul Dufy, Galerie Fanny Guillon-Laffaille, Paris, France (solo)
La revolte de la couleur, De l'impressionnisme aux avant-gardes, Musee d'Ixelles - Museum van Elsene, Brussels, Belgium
Raoul Dufy, Last of the Fauves, Norton Museum of Art, est Palm Beach, FL; The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN; New Orleans Museum of Arts, New Orleans, LA; The Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX (solo)
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1999
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Raoul Dufy, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, France; Musée Picasso, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
O brasil no seculo da Arte, Museu de Arte Contemporanea da Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Dufy - Poiret, Galerie Fanny Guillon-Laffaille, Paris, France; Galerie Neffe-Degandt, London, UK (solo)
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1997
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Raoul Dufy, séries et séries noires, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland (solo)
Dufy, les années 30, Fondation Electricité de France, Paris, France (solo)
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1995 - 1996
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Raoul Dufy, le peintre, la décoration et la mode des années 1920-1930, Académie de France à Rome, Villa Médicis, Roma, Italy (solo)
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1995
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Raoul Dufy, New Otani Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Mer et Musique, avec une évocation de Paris, Musée de Bunkamura, Tokyo, Japan; Musée Nichido de Kasama, Kasama, Japan; Himeji City Museum of Art, Himeji, Japan; Toyohashi City Art Museum, Toyohashi, Japan (solo)
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1993
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Dufy et la musique, Galerie Fanny Guillon-Laffaille, Paris, France (solo)
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1992
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Raoul Dufy, J.P.L. Fine Arts, London, UK (solo)
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1991
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Raoul Dufy, Galerie Fanny Guillon-Laffaille, Paris, France (solo)
Raoul Dufy, Galerie Nichido, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
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1987
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Raoul Dufy, Galerie Daniel Malingue, Paris, France (solo)
Raoul Dufy, drawings, Galerie Fanny Guillon-Laffaille, Paris, France (solo)
Raoul Dufy, Galerie Daniel Malingue, Paris, France (solo)
Raoul Dufy, drawings, Galerie Fanny Guillon-Laffaille, Paris, France (solo)
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1983 - 1984
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Raoul Dufy, Hayward Gallery, London, UK (solo)
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1981
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Raoul Dufy, watercolors, Galerie Louis Carré & Cie, Paris, France (solo)
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1980
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Raoul Dufy, McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX (solo)
Raoul Dufy, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark (solo)
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1978 - 1979
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Raoul Dufy. A Retrospective, Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL (solo)
Raoul Dufy, The Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
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1976
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Raoul Dufy, Galerie Wildenstein, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
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1975
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Raoul Dufy 1877-1953, Galerie Wildenstein, London, UK (solo)
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1973
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Raoul Dufy 1877-1953, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (solo)
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1967 - 1968
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Musée national d'Art occidental, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Raoul Dufy, Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany; Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany (solo)
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1965 - 1966
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Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, NY (solo)
Raoul Dufy 1877-1953, Museum of Art, Phoenix, AZ (solo)
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1963
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Palais du Louvre, Paris, France (solo)
Hommage à Raoul Dufy, Galerie des Ponchettes, Nice, France (solo)
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1962
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Paintings, Watercolors and drawings by Raoul Dufy, 1877-1953 , Galerie Wildenstein, New York, NY (solo)
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1961
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Homage to Raoul Dufy, Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
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1959
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Chefs-d'oeuvre de Raoul Dufy, Galerie Bernheim Jeune-Dauberville, Paris, France (solo)
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1957
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Raoul Dufy 1877-1953, Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
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1955
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Raoul Dufy (1877-1953), Perls Galleries, New York, NY (solo)
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1954
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Raoul Dufy, The Tate Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Raoul Dufy, Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany (solo)
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1954
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Raoul Dufy 1877-1953, Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA; County Museum, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
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1953
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Raoul Dufy, 1877-1953, Musée national d'Art moderne, Paris, France (solo)
Raoul Dufy, Twenty Masterpieces, Perls Galleries, New York, NY (solo)
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1952
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Raoul Dufy, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland (solo)
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1951
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Raoul Dufy - Impressions of America, The Arts Club, Chicago, IL (solo)
Louis Carré Gallery, New York, NY; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA (solo)
The Phillips Gallery, Washington, D.C. (solo)
Paintings by Raoul Dufy, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA (solo)
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1950
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Raoul Dufy, The Lefevre Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Raoul Dufy, Perls Galleries, New York, NY (solo)
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1949
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Raoul Dufy, Louis Carré Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1948
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Raoul Dufy, tapisseries de haute lisse, Galerie Louis Carré, Paris, France (solo)
Aquarelles de courses de Raoul Dufy, Galerie Pétridès, Paris, France (solo)
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1947
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Raoul Dufy, Galerie Louis Carré, Paris, France (solo)
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1944
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Paintings by Raoul Dufy, Phillips Memorial Gallery, Washington, D.C. (solo)
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1943
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Raoul Dufy, Galerie Louis Carré, Paris, France (solo)
Dufy dans les collections belges, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France (solo)
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1941
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Raoul Dufy, Galerie Louis Carré, Paris, France (solo)
Raoul Dufy, The Arts Club, Chicago, IL (solo)
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1939
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Raoul Dufy, Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA (solo)
Raoul DufyThe Whyte Gallery, Washington, D.C. (solo)
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1938
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Bignou Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Watercolors by Raoul Dufy, The Arts Club, Chicago, IL (solo)
Oil paintings and water colors by Raoul Dufy, Reid and Lefevre Galleries, London, UK (solo)
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1937
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Painted fresco for the Palais de l' Electricité at the Exposition Internationale, Paris, France
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1936
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Raoul Dufy, The Lefevre Galleries, London, UK (solo)
Caroll Carstairs Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1934
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Raoul Dufy, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France (solo)
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1929
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Raoul Dufy, Galerie Dudensing, New York, NY (solo)
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1927
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Raoul Dufy Les cent dessins originaux pour « La Terre frottée d'ail », Galerie Le Portique, Paris, France (solo)
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1923
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Raoul Dufy, Galerie Le Centaure, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
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1921
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Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, France (solo)
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1906
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Galerie Berthe Weill, Paris, France (solo)
Cercle de l'Art Moderne, Paris, France
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1903
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Salon des Indépendants, Paris, France
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1901
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Salon des Artistes, Paris, France
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Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France
The Royal Collection, London, UK
Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland
Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Musée Cantini, Marseilles, France
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nice, France
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
San Diego Museum of Art, CA
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| Literature |
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1989
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Dora Perez-Tibi, Dufy. Paris, France: Flammarion, 1989
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1982
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Guillon-Laffaille, Fanny. Raoul Dufy, Catalogue Raisonné des Aquarelles, Gouaches & Pastels – tome II . Paris, France: Editions Louis Carré & Cie, 1982
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1977
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Laffaille, Maurice. Raoul Dufy, Catalogue Raisonné de l’Œuvre Peint – tome IV. Geneva: Editions Motte, 1977
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1976
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Laffaille, Maurice. Raoul Dufy, Catalogue Raisonné de l’Œuvre Peint – tome II . Geneva: Editions Motte, 1976
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