Fauvism & Expressionism · 1877–1953 · French

Raoul Dufy

Dufy let color float free of drawing, laying broad washes of color and then drawing over them in quick, separate lines.

Across 3 works, the colors are mostly green (26%), brown (20%) and blue (19%). On average the canvases are light, moderately saturated and balanced between warm and cool. Signature colors, used far more here than across the collection: light green, lime green, teal, lime green and light lime green.

Color print

The swatches covering most of these canvases, averaged over every work, dark to light.

• MG 058 muted green 4.4% of canvas
• MG 081 muted azure teal 4.2% of canvas
• MG 055 light muted green 4.0% of canvas
• MG 057 muted lime green 3.9% of canvas
• MG 080 light muted aqua 3.9% of canvas
• MG 053 pale muted green 3.9% of canvas
• MG 216 dark grey 3.5% of canvas
• MG 171 bone 3.5% of canvas
• MG 038 light gold 3.4% of canvas
• MG 056 muted lime green 3.2% of canvas
• MG 082 muted azure teal 3.0% of canvas
• MG 217 iron 3.0% of canvas
• MG 218 graphite 3.0% of canvas
• MG 066 lime green 2.9% of canvas
• MG 039 gold 2.7% of canvas
• MG 065 lime green 2.7% of canvas

Measurements

Lightness

0.63

Contrast

0.45

Vividness

0.054

Warmth

+0.04

Complexity

219 cells

Hue range

0.67

Focus

0.04

Composition

Averaged over 3 works: 53% of the visual weight in the right half, 53% in the lower half; symmetry 0.46; 9% calm space; half of the detail in 37% of the canvas. Measured from each image, not a rule the painters followed.

Works

• L'Apéritif, 1908
• Trees in L'Estaque, 1908
• Le Cours de la Seine, c. 1937