Description of the artwork «Fairy of electricity»
"Electricity fairy" Raoul Dufy produced for the French pavilion of the world exhibition 1937года in Paris (the same one on which the Soviet Union has shown "Worker and collective farm girl").
The work is impressive: 1 000х6 240cm (624 m2). Panel consists of 250 panels 200х120см.
Technology of painting that resembles a quickly written watercolors, Dufy developed in cooperation with chemist Jacques Marage.
Dufy wrote a panel from April 1936 until the opening of the world Expo in may 1937. Now it can be seen in the Paris Palais de Tokyo.