Raoul Dufy. Most intimate paintings

Raoul Dufy focuses on the more intimate, self-reflective works by the French painter, whose best-known paintings embody a vivid sense of joie de vivre.

The exhibition includes a group of lesser-known paintings by Dufy, who isn?t too popular himself in our country. The French artist painted scenes, mostly in the seaside, marked by the joy and pleasure of everyday life. Later in his career, he became more interested in private, personal themes. In the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, you?ll also find the woodcut illustrations Dufy made for Guillaume Apollinaire?s book of poems Bestiary, or The Parade of Orpheus.

In recent years the life and work of Raoul Dufy has been the subject of increasing reassessment.

In 2003, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of Dufy?s death, several major exhibitions were devoted to him while that same year the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza placed four works by this French artist from the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection on display in its galleries. The artist?s presence in Spain, however, remains limited.

In 2015 and with the collaboration of the Comunidad de Madrid, the Museum will be offering a reassessment of his work that focuses not only on Dufy?s more hedonistic side as the painter of the pleasures of modern life, but also and primarily on his more introspective, reflexive and personal facet.

In order to single out this aspect Juan Ángel López-Manzanares, the exhibition?s curator and a curator at the Museo Thyssen, will analyse relatively unexplored issues within Dufy?s output such as the increasing distance of the viewpoints in his compositions, his synthesis of the everyday and the pastoral, the emotional reserve of his landscapes and the importance, particularly in his late works, of depictions of his domestic realm.

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Dufy exhibition at Thyssen-Bornemisza museumwww.museothyssen.org

Dates: From 17 February to 17 May 2015

Address: Thyssen-Bornemisza museum, Paseo del Prado, 8

Ticket price: 10 EUR

Opening hours: Mon 12 noon-4pm - Tue-Sun 10am-7pm