Elegant Women at the Trifle
Raoul Dufy
1919–1920
- Medium
- Gouache, over graphite, on off-white laid paper, laid down on gray board
- Dimensions
- 65.7 × 50 cm (25 7/8 × 19 11/16 in.)
- Genre
- prints and drawing
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)graphitegouacheprints and drawingpaper (fiber product)
About
Painter and printmaker Raoul Dufy was also a skilled textile designer. He established a clothprinting workshop in 1910 and designed textiles for the fabric firm Bianchini-Férier until 1928. Dufy was mesmerized by the racetrack, where the fashion, speed, and members of high society intermingled with jockeys and horses, all of which are visible in this drawing. That this design is painted in only a few colors indicates that it may have been intended for one of his textile patterns.
