Raoul Dufy, du motif à la couleur. Sculpture grafted onto bouquets of tentacles

grafted onto bouquets of tentacles

Agnès Bos (AB) is a curator in the Department of Decorative Arts

the analysis comes up against the relative transparency of the Libyans in the documentation

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Raoul Dufy, du motif à la couleur. Sculpture grafted onto bouquets of tentaclesFrom the beginning in 1907, and particularly from 1910, Raoul Dufy resolutely committed himself to the experience of woodcuts, creating one of the masterpieces of early 20th century graphic art, the illustration of Guillaume Apollinaire's Bestiary or Procession of Orpheus. Marked by a fruitful commitment to the field of applied arts, the course of his career bears witness to the preponderant place given to artisanal techniques. The choice of works