Raoul Dufy
Fishing
1904-1914
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Raoul Dufy
Fishing
1904-1914
Physical Qualities
Woodcut, Sheet: 444 x 502 mm. (17 1/2 x 19 3/4 in.)
Image: 324 x 406 mm. (12 3/4 x 16 in.)
Credit Line
Purchased in Memory of John Dorsey with funds contributed by his Friends
Object Number
2008.74
Unlike his Fauve colleagues, who were inspired by Paul Gauguin’s prints of the late 1890s among other influences, Raoul Dufy turned to woodcuts because of his interest in popular prints, such as those seen in almanacs and calendars. He strove to produce images that provided a perfect balance between light and dark throughout the composition. In both Fishing and Hunting, Dufy created crisply rendered figures in landscape settings in a playful and decorative style that were so appealing they were later printed on fabric.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2008; Harris Schrank Fine Prints, New York
Wild Forms: Fauve Woodcuts
Castleman, Riva, "Prints of the Twentieth Century: a History," New York: Museum of Modern Art, Distributed by Oxford University Press, 1976, ill. p. 20.
Jay Fisher, 'This Issue of the Newsletter is Dedicated to the Memory of John Dorsey,' "Newletter," The Print, Drawing & Photograph Society of The Baltimore Museum of Art," Vol. 26, No. 2, Fall 2008, p. 3.
BMA Today, Summer 2009, p. 22, ill.
Pernoud, Emmanuel, "Les Estampes des Fauves," 1994, ill. p. 89.
Inscribed: lower right in block: "LA PÊCHE"; lower right in graphite: "Raoul Dufy / 53/100"
