His favourite Fauvist is Raoul Dufy, of which he once said: “Raoul Dufy displays well a fine balance twixt the air and sky—a light, swift, and graceful ease that suggests rather than manifests mixed. He takes the stillness and turns it into a breeze, with curves and swirls, he swerves and curls—swings as he sings of all the many pleasing things that his eyes seize, a lily or a sail, even female strings, he brings forth lucidity, a