Why it matters
Dufy's enormous mural celebrates the role of electricity in modern life. It was made for the Pavilion of Electricity at the 1937 Paris World's Fair.
Did you know?
- It consists of 250 plywood panels, each 2 metres high.
- Dufy painted it with his brother and assistants in a hangar at a power station.
- He used a light oil paint that gave the effect of gouache.
Based on the French Wikipedia article La Fée Électricité (CC BY-SA 4.0).
