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Boats on the Beach at Pourville - Claude Monet - Oil Painting brings gallery-caliber art into everyday spaces. This seascape oil painting is a 100% hand painted oil painting on canvas, created for buyers who want genuine impressionist canvas wall art instead of a mass-produced poster or paper print.
Boats on the Beach at Pourville, Low Tide, 1882
Oil on canvas
23 7/8 x 31 3/8 inches
Kreeger Museum, United States.
In 1882, Claude Monet spent time painting his native Normandy while staying in Pourville, a fishing village along the rocky coastline. Setting up on the beach, he created artworks en plein air, capturing the changing light and atmosphere. He painted with quick, defined brushstrokes of unmixed color for the land and wispier, blended marks in blues, turquoises, and pinks for the sky and sea, separated only by a misty horizon line. This work is one of two paintings in the Kreeger’s collection from this spot on Pourville’s beach—the other, Sunset at Pourville— overlooking the grass-covered limestone cliffs of Varengeville and Vasterival. In Monet’s framing, the landmass on the left rises up from the coast like a lumbering beast. The cliffside is depicted mostly in shadows, with dark blue brushstrokes woven around dabs of peach and yellow tones, indicating the limestone surfaces that are reflected in the water below. The beach is empty except for two small vessels nestled in the sand, emphasizing the solitary nature of this scene, where only the artist is witness to the changing tide.
The seascape subject is rebuilt stroke by stroke in oil, giving the finished canvas the depth expected of impressionist oil painting wall decor.
Materials matter for impressionist wall decor. That is why this piece is built on artist-grade canvas with lightfast oil colors, applied by hand rather than output from a printer, and sealed for long-term display.
Style it over a fireplace, behind a reading chair, or along a staircase. Wherever it goes, this impressionist oil painting wall decor adds the layered color that only a hand painted canvas provides.
| Size | Price |
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| 24 X 36 in | $77.98 |
| 30 X 40 in | $104.48 |
| 36 X 48 in | $149.48 |
| 48 X 72 in | $291.98 |
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