July 14 in Le Havre

1906

Raoul Dufy

Artist, French, 1877 - 1953

People walk or stand along a city street in front of buildings outlined in amethyst purple and hung with flags in this loosely painted, vertical composition. In the bottom quarter of the canvas, the people are painted with a few strokes of brown, pale blue, dark purple, or pale pink. Two four or five-story buildings fill most of the rest of the composition. Four flags flutter from flagpoles along a balcony or arcade on the central building. Two flags have blue crosses outlined in white against red backgrounds. One other is vertically striped with blue, white, and then red, and the fourth has a yellow cross on a blue background. The upper-story exterior walls of the buildings and the sky are mottled parchment white with a few touches of very pale pink or yellow. The artist signed the painting in the lower left corner, “Raoul Dufy 1906.”
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

  • Dimensions

    overall: 54.6 x 37.8 cm (21 1/2 x 14 7/8 in.)
    framed: 63.8 x 47.3 x 3.6 cm (25 1/8 x 18 5/8 x 1 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1985.64.13

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Possibly (Galerie Paul Vallotton, Lausanne).[1] (Hector Brame, Paris); sold June 1964 to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, Virginia; gift 1985 to NGA.
[1] A label on the back of the painting gives his name and city.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1973

  • French Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1973-1978, unnumbered checklist.

1993

  • Extended loan for use by Ambassador Madeleine Albright, Representative of the U.S. to the United Nations, office at the U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C., 1993-1997.

1997

  • Extended loan for use by Secretary Madeleine Albright, U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C., 1997-1999.

1999

  • Raoul Dufy: Last of the Fauves, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach; Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis; New Orleans Museum of Art; Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, 1999-2000, no. 7, repro.

2004

  • Fauve Painting from the Permanent Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004-2005, no catalogue.

2008

  • Raoul Dufy Le plaisir, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 2008-2009, no. 13, repro.

2014

  • Matisse and Friends: Selected Masterworks from the National Gallery of Art, Denver Art Museum, 2014-2015, no catalogue.

2015

  • Raoul Dufy. Exterior to Interior, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, 2015, no. 13, repro.

Inscriptions

lower left: Raoul Dufy 1906

Wikidata ID

Q20191019

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