Reclining Nude
1930
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View on museum website →Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 65.4 x 81.3 cm (25 3/4 x 32 in.) framed: 85.7 x 102.2 x 8.3 cm (33 3/4 x 40 1/4 x 3 1/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Chester Dale Collection
Accession Number
1963.10.142
About the Artist
Raoul Dufy
Raoul Dufy (1877–1953) was a French painter whose vivid, sunlit canvases became among the most recognizable expressions of joie de vivre in twentieth-century art. Born in Le Havre, he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts there before moving to Paris, where he enrolled at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts and fell under the influence of the Impressionists. An early encounter with Henri M...