Le Modele hindou dans l'atelier
In this pen and ink drawing, Dufy employs lively, vibrant hatching and cross hatching to depict the model, Anmaviti Pontry. Pontry is depicted in several of the artist’s drawings and paintings between 1928 and 1930, which alternately identify her as Hindu, Indian, or Persian in their titles. Dufy’s repeated return to this model and the various cultural identities impressed upon her by his choice of titles provide a modern example of the longstanding Orientalist impulse in European art and the conscious effort to exoticize non-European models.
Artwork Details
- Title: Le Modele hindou dans l'atelier
- Artist: Raoul Dufy (French, Le Havre 1877–1953 Forcalquier)
- Date: 1929
- Medium: Pen and black ink on paper
- Dimensions: 19 3/4 × 25 7/8 in. (50.1 × 65.8 cm)
- Classification: Drawings
- Credit Line: Gift of the Constance B. and Carroll L. Cartwright Collection, 2025
- Object Number: 2025.236.1
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art
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