Window on the Promenade des Anglais, Nice
Raoul Dufy, French, 1877 - 1953
Geography:
Made in France, Europe
Date:
1938Medium:
Oil on canvasDimensions:
18 1/8 x 15 1/16 inches (46 x 38.3 cm) Framed: 25 3/4 × 22 3/4 × 3 1/2 inches (65.4 × 57.8 × 8.9 cm)Copyright:
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, ParisCuratorial Department:
European PaintingObject Location:
1967-30-36Credit Line:
The Samuel S. White 3rd and Vera White Collection, 1967
Made in France, Europe
Date:
1938Medium:
Oil on canvasDimensions:
18 1/8 x 15 1/16 inches (46 x 38.3 cm) Framed: 25 3/4 × 22 3/4 × 3 1/2 inches (65.4 × 57.8 × 8.9 cm)Copyright:
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, ParisCuratorial Department:
European PaintingObject Location:
Currently not on view
Accession Number:1967-30-36Credit Line:
The Samuel S. White 3rd and Vera White Collection, 1967
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colorful [x] frame-within-a-frame [x] nighttime [x] royal blue [x] window [x]In this work Dufy depicts the view from the closed window of his studio in the Hôtel Suisse, which looked out over the Promenade des Anglais, the celebrated shoreline road fringed with palm trees that hugs the curved Bay of Angels in downtown Nice. The work owes an equal debt to Henri Matisse's earlier hotel window paintings and to Piet Mondrian's severely geometric abstractions. The rectilinear windowpanes, placed parallel to the picture plane, serve as a framing device for the hillside city, which Dufy has rendered in saturated colors dominated by the vibrant blue sea and sky.
