Still Life with Closed Shutters

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© Estate of Raoul Dufy / Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York / ADAGP, Paris
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Still Life with Closed Shutters

France, 1906
Paintings
Oil on canvas
31 7/8 × 25 9/16 in. (80.96 × 64.93 cm)
Partial, fractional and promised gift of Janice and Henri Lazarof (M.2005.70.23)
Modern Art
Currently on public view:
Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3

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Provenance

The artist (1877-1953); [Sold at auction, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 12 December 1925, no 609]. [Sold at auction, d Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 27 February 1932]....
The artist (1877-1953); [Sold at auction, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 12 December 1925, no 609]. [Sold at auction, d Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 27 February 1932]. Collection Georges Jean Aubry (1882-1950), France. [Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne]; sold in 1992 to Janice and Henri Lazarof, Los Angeles; given in 2005 to LACMA.
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Label

Painted shortly after Raoul Dufy’s encounter with Henri Matisse’s work in 1905, Still Life with Closed Shutters employs rich, saturated colors to depict a table covered abundantly with fruit....
Painted shortly after Raoul Dufy’s encounter with Henri Matisse’s work in 1905, Still Life with Closed Shutters employs rich, saturated colors to depict a table covered abundantly with fruit. Dufy, like Matisse, came to be associated with the Fauves (“wild beasts”), whose paintings separated color from its descriptive or representational function. Here, color does not conform to the natural world. Whites, blues, pinks, and greens all blend together, indicating perspective and volume while also revealing the flatness of the canvas.

Wall label, 2021.
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Bibliography

  • Laffaille, Maurice. Raoul Dufy: Catalogue Raisonné de l'œuvre Peint. Geneva: Éditions Motte, 1977. Catalogue raisonné, vol. iv, no. 1801, p. 307.

  • Barron, Stephanie. Envisioning Modernism: The Janice and Henri Lazarof Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2012.