Born in Le Havre and trained at Paris’ Ecole des Beaux-Arts, French Fauvist painter Raoul Dufy was strongly influenced by impressionists such as Monet and Pisarro, and by Matisse, from whom he inherited a love of riotous colour. He became renowned for a vibrant decorative style that – although it may not have won him the critical attention afforded to his more socially concerned contemporaries – translated beautifully into ceramics and textile design. In 1911, Dufy established a small fabric-printing factory in Lyon – Christopher Farr Cloth has selected six designs from his archive.