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"Light is the soul of color, without light, color is lifeless" (Dufy quoted in D. Perez-Tibi, Dufy, Paris, 1989, p. 134).
In 1919, Dufy made his first extended visit to the Alpes-Maritimes region in the South of France. The Mediterranean sun and lush vegetation made an immediate impression upon him. He began to incorporate broad bright color with calligraphic line, developing what was to become his trademark style. As Grace L. McCann Morley writes, "It was in the twenties that Dufy adopted the peculiar conventions of color characteristic of so many of his oils and watercolors for two decades. The arrangement of bands of color to establish a composition... nd application of color independent of forms and their contours became the rule. The result is an abstract color composition which exists and functions on its own terms...the result of his long research in color as the expression of light. Like the local colors that spill over the outline of the forms, they have the effect of suggesting movement" (Raoul Dufy, exh. cat., San Francisco Museum of Art, 1954, p. 18).
The present painting is composed of two color bands, united by the pine tree that gives the work its title. The idyllic tranquility of Le Pin is finely realized in the artist's distinctive palette of deep blues, rich greens and bright reds. Of Raoul Dufy, Gertrude Stein famously wrote, "One must meditate about pleasure. Raoul Dufy is pleasure. To know to know to love her so. You have to really love what is to have pleasure and Dufy does really love what is and we have the pleasure."
In 1919, Dufy made his first extended visit to the Alpes-Maritimes region in the South of France. The Mediterranean sun and lush vegetation made an immediate impression upon him. He began to incorporate broad bright color with calligraphic line, developing what was to become his trademark style. As Grace L. McCann Morley writes, "It was in the twenties that Dufy adopted the peculiar conventions of color characteristic of so many of his oils and watercolors for two decades. The arrangement of bands of color to establish a composition... nd application of color independent of forms and their contours became the rule. The result is an abstract color composition which exists and functions on its own terms...the result of his long research in color as the expression of light. Like the local colors that spill over the outline of the forms, they have the effect of suggesting movement" (Raoul Dufy, exh. cat., San Francisco Museum of Art, 1954, p. 18).
The present painting is composed of two color bands, united by the pine tree that gives the work its title. The idyllic tranquility of Le Pin is finely realized in the artist's distinctive palette of deep blues, rich greens and bright reds. Of Raoul Dufy, Gertrude Stein famously wrote, "One must meditate about pleasure. Raoul Dufy is pleasure. To know to know to love her so. You have to really love what is to have pleasure and Dufy does really love what is and we have the pleasure."