Raoul Dufy, le miracle de l’imagination
Exhibition
From 13 December 2024 to 28 September 2025
From 13/12/2024 to 28/09/2025
Opening hours on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday between 11 am and 6 pm.
Raoul Dufy (1877-1953) is known today for his palette of bright colours and the cheerfulness of his subjects, from which any form of doubt or worry is banished.
This exhibition invites you to discover his artistic journey, from the revelation of Henri Matisse's Luxe, Calme et Volupté, where the need to bring about the "miracle of the imagination" fully appeared to him, to the development of his touch in relation to that of Paul Cézanne and finally the blossoming of his own pictorial language in his studio in Vence.
His unique style unfolds throughout the exhibition in the landscapes of Normandy and Provence, the motif of the studio, the views of ports and bathers or even the musicality of parties and receptions. And if the Norman is above all a painter, he also sought very early on to transpose the recurring motifs of his imagination into the illustration of books, textile creation or even ceramics. This project is an opportunity to rediscover the richness of the Dufy collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, which we owe mainly to the generosity of the artist's wife, Eugénie Brisson from Nice.
