Tag: DEAUVILLE
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Eugène Boudin, DEAUVILLE, LE BASSIN 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #239
Deauville was conceived for fashionable pleasures. It emerged from the dunes in the 1860s, thanks to the vision of one Dr Joseph Olliffe and his close friend, Emperor Napoleon III’s half-brother, the Duc de Morny. At the end of the 1850s, marshes lay between the sea here and a little slope-side village above. Dr Olliffe convinced…
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Raoul Dufy, LES VOILIERS À DEAUVILLE 01 Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #236
Les Voiliers à Deauville conveys a sense of stillness in the midst of a frenetic scene, in which the lines of opposing objects intersect and create a cohesive landscape where the sea is associated more with commerce than nature. The present work is a departure from more Fauve depictions of ships in Dufy’s early paintings. This…
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