This week, Plazzart is taking you on holiday…at the beach !
The sun, the plaza, the surf…Inspired ? Well, you are not alone ! The see, unpredictable and ever shifting, has always delighted artists.
Whether they were marine painters or simply on a sailing holiday, artists such as Eugène Boudin, Albert Marquet or Salvador Dalí have very often found inspiration by the shore.
Swimsuits ready, set ? Go !
Eugène Boudin (1824-1898)
Woman in a crinoline on a beach
Drawing in pencil
Monogramed E.B bottom left
Dimensions : 15 x 24
Provenance : Gallery, Switzerland.
Up until the middle of the 19th century, the sea is a frightening environment. Then, a shift in attitudes operates in the collective consciousness, expressing a new sensibility for this element which has remained little known up until now.
The emergence of swimming in the sea and a better oceanographic knowledge then leads artists to take over this subject and represent it either true to life, or with fantastical or dreamlike elements.
Albert Marquet (1875-1947)
Sailing boats at the harbour, 1920
Pen on paper dating from 1920 representing sailboats and strollers on the docks of the harbour of La Rochelle
Dimensions: 12 x 16 cm
Monoframed A.M bottom left
Provenance : Swiss gallery
Marc Chagall
Nice, Baie des Anges, 1961
Original lithograph (Mourlot workshops)
Signed in ink
On paper of 100 x 62 cm
Catalogue raisonné Mourlot #350
