Amphitrite et chevaux marins (1925)
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Raoul Dufy returned to the subject of Amphitrite — the Greek sea goddess, wife of Poseidon — multiple times in the 1920s, often pairing her with sea horses and shells. Amphitrite et chevaux marins is from 1925, gouache and charcoal on paper. Amphitrite sits in the center in vivid red-orange against a field of blue, surrounded by horses rendered in quick outline and repeating wave patterns that flatten the whole composition into something closer to textile design than traditional painting. Dufy was deeply involved in decorative arts during this period — he designed fabrics for Paul Poiret's fashion house and ceramics alongside the Catalan potter Llorens Artigas. You can feel that cross-pollination here, the way the image reads as both a mythological scene and a pattern.