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Raoul Dufy exhibition in Aix-en-Provence, Cézanne as a legacy

2022-05-16T15:56:18.562Z


CRITICISM - Independence of color, reduction of forms to simple signals: the Hôtel de Caumont shows in 90 works how Le Havrais received the lesson of the master of Sainte-Victoire to establish his own style.


“Our father to all”

, said Picasso about Cézanne.

As an example of the relevance of this summary of modern art, here is detailed, in Aix-en-Provence, the very city of the master, the influence that he exercised on one of his cadets that he did not had never met, Raoul Dufy (1877-1953).

At the Hôtel de Caumont, the formal links between the two painters are highlighted in 90 fine examples, and in detail.

Sophie Krebs, general curator at the Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, was the curator here.

To discover

  • Discover the “Best of the Goncourt Prize” collection

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When Roland Dorgelès wrote in Le Figaro: "Dufy tamed colors as others charm birds"

She explains how Cézanne, discovered by Le Havre during the 1906 exhibition at the Salon des Indépendants, was first a shock, then a close pictorial relationship from 1908 to 1914. And finally, she shows how Cézanne infused for a long time to come, throughout Dufy's maturity.

The course opens with some particularly eloquent landscapes.

Those of the Mediterranean with vertical sea, veritable walls of blue, or those of pine foliage captured in a tight frame

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Source: lefigaro

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