Nahmad Contemporary

About the Gallery
Founded in 2013, Nahmad Contemporary is dedicated to the presentation of innovative, historically focused exhibitions. The gallery specializes in leading Contemporary artists who rose to prominence during the 1980s, and a selection of Modern masters from the 20th century. The scope of Nahmad Contemporary’s program includes exhibitions that historicize Contemporary artists by illuminating a distinct series, medium, or focus within their oeuvre. Additionally, the gallery features Modern masters to inspire contemporary perspectives on particular works from their canon.

About the Presentation
Nahmad Contemporary will celebrate the profound yet underrecognized legacy of Raoul Dufy with a solo presentation of paintings and works on paper made between 1920 and 1948, capturing the artist at the height of his career. Dufy emerged in early 20th-century Paris with works embodying the experimental painting techniques of the Impressionists and the bold colors of the Fauves. He also worked as a textile designer, illustrator, and printmaker, collaborating, for example, with couturier Paul Poiret in the 1910s. During this period of intense exploration, Dufy first developed his “couleur-lumière” theory of using heightened color to convey light in painting. The artist honed this distinctive style in the early 1920s by incorporating energetic, undulating lines with bright swathes of paint against a white ground to portray the elegant, leisurely scenes for which he is remembered, from seaside and countryside vistas, races, and regattas to parades and concert halls.