the red violin raoul dufyAround the 1940s, Raoul Dufy gradually reduced his compositions to the essential, focusing his attention on a few emblematic objects, often related to music. The Red Violin is part of this period of formal stripping down, where the object becomes the main motif, isolated in a simplified, almost abstract pictorial space. The scene shows a violin resting on a table, with a large red background and a white sheet of paper, perhaps a score. The frame is