Raoul Dufy
Still Life with Closed Shutters1906

On view:

Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3

Artist or Maker: Raoul Dufy
France, 1877-1953
Title: Still Life with Closed Shutters
Place Made: France
Date Made: 1906
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 31 7/8 × 25 9/16 in. (80.96 × 64.93 cm)
Credit Line: Partial, fractional and promised gift of Janice and Henri Lazarof
Accession Number: M.2005.70.23
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: Modern Art
Curatorial Notes: 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.
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]. 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.
Selected Bibliography: Laffaille, Maurice. Raoul Dufy: Catalogue Raisonné de l'œuvre Peint. Geneva: Éditions Motte, 1977. Catalogue raisonné, vol. iv, no. 1801, p. 307.