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This French painter and designer was born in Le Havre in 1877. In 1900, he came to Paris where he was influenced by the Fauves’ choice of subject-matter and use of color. His contacts with Matisse and Braque later led him back to a more disciplined form of artistic expression. He developed a style characterized by a light, almost gay colorfulness and flowing, sketchy contours. With his pictures of rice-fields, people on beaches, horse-racing, regattas and similar motifs, his art became extremely popular and was always in demand. Beyond his activity as a painter, Dufy was also an excellent designer. For the World Exhibition of 1937 in Paris he painted a 600 square meter painting for the Pavilion of Light, the largest picture in the world. Raoul Dufy died in 1953 in Forcalquier.
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