Les Musiciens Ambulants. Street Musicians. by Raoul Dufy, 1877-1953

Raoul Dufy, 1877-1953
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Les Musiciens Ambulants. Street Musicians.

Original etching in black ink. c.1948. Signed in pencil. Numbered in pencil from the edition of 150. Issued by the Guilde de la Gravure, Paris c.1948.

Excellent impression printed with a light plate tone. On stiff pale cream wove paper. Generally excellent condition. Full margins. Sheet: 12 3/4 x 19 1/2ins. Plate: 7 3/8 x 9
3/4ins (188x248mm).

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Besides horse racing (see opposite), music was one of the other great passions of Dufy's life, and themes of orchestras and bands occur frequently in his painting and drawings of the later years. Les Musiciens Ambulants is one of the few etched works with this motif.

Dufy found that music expressed the sense of vitality, of joie-de-vivre, which is so important a central element in his art of the post First War period. In his paintings he used the strokes of the brush to emphasise the lightness and movement which he found in music, and in his drawings, as in this etching, he used the line in a similar manner.