Raoul Dufy was an important representative of French Fauvism.
A scholarship took Raoul Dufy to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1900, where he met Henri Matisse for the first time. The way to Fauvism, which was to majorly coin the oeuvre of Raoul Dufy, was not far from that point on. Even though contact with Georges Braque led to a reduced color palette and a cubist style for a short time, the colorism of his works became more enhanced as of 1912. As far as his topics were concerned Raoul Dufy dedicated his art to merry landscapes, still lifes, racing tracks, circus scenes and concerts. Additionally, numerous designs of decorative carpets and cloths as well as stage designs by his hand have survived up until today.
Works by Raoul Dufy are in possession of numerous renowned museums all over the world, among them the Eremitage in St. Petersburg, the Royal Collection and the Tate Gallery in London, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Cologne.