Vue de Grasse

Vue de Grasse is an oil painting by Raoul Dufy that presents a public square in Grasse through colour and light. Trees, a fountain, a garden and a kiosk shape the scene. Dufy made the work around 1930, drawing on the atmosphere of Provence and the French Riviera. The canvas measures about 75.5 by 116.5 centimetres. Fauvist colour and expressive brushwork connect this view with Dufy’s wider interest in Mediterranean landscapes. Grasse supplies both the setting and the subject. The city’s old town includes medieval buildings, seventeenth-century mansions and eighteenth-century villas around alleys and squares. The cathedral anchors part of that historic setting. Vue de Grasse belongs to a modern art collection and has appeared in exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou and Musée de Valence. The painting also carries earlier titles linked to Hyères. Along the Côte d’Azur des Peintres route, the work connects Grasse with other landscapes painted by major artists. The route places art beside the landscapes that inspired it.