
Nature morte à la tasse
1927
A still life painting by French artist Jean Dufy featuring a cup, created in 1927 using oil on canvas.
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Location
- Sotheby's, New York, NY
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Sotheby'sView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Impressionist and Modern Art Online
September 30, 2021
Estimate: $7,000 to $9,000
Lot 100
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Raoul Dufy
French · b. 1877

As Jean Dufy's brother and close artistic companion, Raoul Dufy painted still lifes with a similarly light, vibrant Fauvist palette and loose brushwork that gives everyday objects like cups and tableware a joyful, decorative quality. His still life compositions share the same French Post-Impressionist sensibility and intimate domestic subject matter.

Pierre Bonnard
French · b. 1867

Bonnard painted intimate still life compositions featuring tabletop objects including cups and vessels using richly colored oil on canvas with a warm, luminous quality that closely parallels Jean Dufy's approach to everyday domestic subjects. His Nabis influenced treatment of light and color on modest household objects reflects the same lyrical and intimate mood.

Albert Marquet
French · b. 1875

Marquet was a French Post-Impressionist painter who created still life works in oil on canvas with a restrained yet elegant use of color and simplified forms that aligns closely with Jean Dufy's quiet and refined compositional approach. His focus on modest everyday objects painted with sensitivity and directness mirrors the spirit of this 1927 still life.
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