Raoul Dufy (1877-1953) is known today for his brightly coloured palette and the gaiety of his subjects, from which any form of doubt or concern is banished.

This exhibition invites you to discover his artistic journey, from the revelation of Henri Matisse's Luxe, Calm and Voluptuousness, where the need to bring about the "miracle of the imagination" fully appeared to him, to the development of his touch in relation to that of Paul Cézanne and finally the blossoming of his own pictorial language in his studio in Vence.

His singular style unfolds throughout the exhibition in the landscapes of Normandy and Provence, the motif of the studio, the views of ports and bathers or the musicality of parties and receptions. And if the Norman is above all a painter, he also sought very early on to transpose the recurring motifs of his imagination into the illustration of books, textile creation or ceramics.
This project is an opportunity to rediscover the richness of the Dufy collection of the Musée des Beaux-Arts, which we owe mainly to the generosity of the artist's wife, Eugénie Brisson from Nice.