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Raoul Dufy (1877-1953), Le Pantheon et Saint-Etienne-du-Mont, c 1903-1906, French. Oil on canvas. 92.71 x 107.3 cm. Courtesy of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (http://www.albrightknox.org); by exchange, George B. and Jenny R. Mathews Fund and bequest of A. Conger Goodyear and gift of Colonel Charles Clifton.

When Raoul Dufy (1877-1953) saw the paintings of Henri Matisse and other Fauves for the first time at the Salon d'Automne in Paris in 1905 it was as though scales had fallen from his eyes. Impressionism (or Naturalism, as it was sometimes called), though revolutionary at its beginnings, had been around now for some three decades. Once a challenge to Dufy in the early days of his training, the style had become far too tame for his aspirations. Nothing short of what these "wild beasts" were doing (as a journalist had dubbed Matisse and others at the Salon d'Automne exhibition) . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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