Raoul Dufy was born in Le Havre, France. He was a French Fauvist painter and printmaker who was known for his colorful and decorative style. In 1895, Duffy began to attend the evening classes at Le Havre's École des Beaux-Arts (municipal art school). In 1900, he was granted with an annual scholarship by the Municipality of Le Havre, which allows him to study in the studio of Léon Bonnat at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. Duffy’s artwork had been collected by several noted museums worldwide, including the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Van Abbemuseum in the Netherlands. Selected Solo Exhibitions: 2011 “Raoul Dufy, projets de Tissus”, Galerie Fanny Guillon-Laffaille, Paris, France 2010 “Dufy en Méditerranée”, Musée Paul Valéry, Sète, France 2008 “Raoul Dufy, le Plaisir”, Musée de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France 2003 “Raoul Dufy - Un autre regard”, Fondation Dina Vierny-Musée Maillol, Paris/ Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nice, Nice, France 2003 “Raoul Dufy, du motif à la couleur”, Musée Malraux, Le Havre; Musée d’Art moderne, Céret/ La Piscine-musée d’Art et d’Industrie André Diligent, Roubaix, France 2002 “Raoul Dufy, les peintures de la collection du Centre Pompidou”, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, France 2002 “Raoul Dufy”, Galerie Boulakia, Paris, France 2001 “Raoul Dufy”, Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Tochigi / Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan 2000 “Raoul Dufy－Last of the Fauves”, Norton Museum of Art, Florida/ The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Tennessee/ New Orleans Museum of Arts, Louisiana/ The Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, Texas, U.S.A. 1999 “Raoul Dufy”, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, France; Musée Picasso, Barcelona, Spain 1997 “Raoul Dufy, séries et séries noires”, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland 1995 “Raoul Dufy－le peintre, la décoration et la mode des années 1920-1930”, Académie de France à Rome, Villa Médicis, Roma, Italy 1995 “Raoul Dufy”, New Otani Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan 1995 “Mer et Musique, avec une évocation de Paris”, Bunkamura Museum, Tokyo/ Kasama Nichido Museum of Art, Ibaraki / Himeji City Museum of Art, Hyogo/ Toyohashi City Museum of Art and History, Aichi, Japan 1993 “Dufy et la musique”, Galerie Fanny Guillon-Laffaille, Paris, France 1991 “Raoul Dufy”, Galerie Nichido, Tokyo, Japan 1983 “Raoul Dufy”, Hayward Gallery, London, U.K. 1980 “Raoul Dufy”, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark 1975 “Raoul Dufy 1877-1953”, Galerie Wildenstein, London, U.K. 1973 “Raoul Dufy 1877-1953”, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany 1967 “Raoul Dufy”, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany 1957 “Raoul Dufy 1877-1953”, Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland 1954 “Raoul Dufy”, The Tate Gallery, London, U.K. 1954 “Raoul Dufy 1877-1953”, San Francisco Museum of Art/ Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, U.S.A. 1953 “Raoul Dufy, 1877-1953”, Musée national d'Art moderne, Paris, France 1952 “Raoul Dufy”, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland 1951 “Paintings by Raoul Dufy”, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, U.S.A 1944 “Paintings by Raoul Dufy”, Phillips Memorial Gallery, Washington D.C., U.S.A 1943 “Dufy dans les collections belges”, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France