La Rue - Fête Nationale. The Street - On a National Holiday. Poster for Salon des Artistes Décorateurs 1939. by Raoul Dufy, 1877-1953

Raoul Dufy, 1877-1953
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La Rue - Fête Nationale. The Street - On a National Holiday. Poster for Salon des Artistes Décorateurs 1939.

Original lithograph in colours with added lettering as a poster. 1938. Signed in the stone. From the edition (size unknown) printed with the lettering at the Atelier Karcher, Paris 1939. Issued by Bessard Editeur, 1939. Rare.
Ref: Mourlot - Affiches Originales des Maitres de L'Ecole de Paris no 27 Dufy.
Provenance: H. Neuerberg Collection

Extremely fine impression with very strong colours. On pale cream light wove poster paper. Extremely fine condition, especially for such a poster/lithograph. The full sheet. Sheet: 15 3/4 x 11 3/8ins. Image: 9 1/4 x 11 3/8ins (233x290mm).

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A rare poster with the main image in original colour lithography drawn by Dufy just before the War. No impressions appear to be known without the text added to publicise the exhibition of the ?Artistes Décorateurs? and the ?Salon de Lumière - The Salon of Light?, but the Mourlot records do note that a larger version of the composition was also drawn.

Dufy was one of the great colourists amongst the post-impressionist artists working in the first half of the century. He was also an enthusiastic exponent of the medium of lithography from the 1920?s onwards, yet he drew comparatively few of his prints in colour. This composition, with its rich palette of blues and reds, and the characteristically light-hearted theme, is a very attractive (and rarely seen) example of his work in the medium.