
Nu devant la mer
Employing lithography's linear qualities, this nude study demonstrates Dufy's skill across multiple media while exploring one of art's most enduring subjects with his distinctive flowing line.
- Medium
- Lithographie
- Location
- Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, Paris, France
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Henri Matisse
French · b. 1869

Matisse shared Dufy's Fauvist roots and created numerous nude studies using flowing, expressive line work in lithography and drawing, balancing simplified figurative forms with a decorative yet economical linework that closely mirrors this piece.

Pablo Picasso
Spanish · b. 1881

Picasso was a prolific printmaker who produced countless lithographic nude studies with bold yet lyrical contour lines, and his classical period nudes in particular share the same figurative elegance and muted yet colorful tonal approach seen in this Dufy work.

Pierre Bonnard
French · b. 1867

Bonnard created intimate nude studies with a similarly flowing and gestural line quality, working extensively in lithography with soft muted palettes while rendering the female figure in a warmly decorative and distinctly French early 20th century sensibility.
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