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Looking for seascape oil painting with real brushwork? The Beach in Sainte-Adresse is reproduced by hand in oils on artist-grade canvas after Raoul Dufy. The result is a piece of fauvist oil painting wall decor that anchors a living room and rewards a closer look.
La plage à Sainte-Adresse, 1902
watercolor over pencil on paper
This watercolor will be reproduced in the supplement to the Raoul Dufy catalogue raisonné of watercolors being prepared by Fanny Guillon-Laffaille.
Dufy was born and grew up in Le Havre, a port on the English Channel, and many of his earliest watercolors and paintings depict the city and its environs. After completing his military service in 1898-1899 he traveled to Paris on a scholarship from the Le Havre city government. He moved in with his friend Emile Othon-Friesz, who had been granted a similar scholarship several years earlier and had a studio on Rue Cortot in Montmartre, where the painter Emile Bernard and the poet Max Jacob (later a close friend of Picasso) also resided. Dufy and Friesz studied in Leon Bonnat's workshop at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts.
During this period Dufy was drawn to Impressionism, and was especially influenced by Pissarro's lively urban landscapes. During summer holidays he returned home, and turned his developing technique to local subjects. One of his favorite sites was the beach at Saint-Adresse, near Le Havre, and during the summers from the years 1901 to 1904 he executed a group of paintings and some watercolors, the first example in his oeuvre of a series on a theme (cf. M. Laffaille, nos. 51-60). Most of these pictures utilize the boardwalk and pier as a prominent horizontal axis, with groupings of beach-goers on the pier and the strand below it. Dufy employs here the French tricolor and flagpole as strong vertical accent, a device that also appears in several of the oil paintings. "Using a fragmented brushstroke, all of these works seek to convey a single moment, a certain silvery vibration of the atmosphere, the movement of the sky, the wind in a flag" (D. Perez-Tibi, Dufy, New York, 1989, p. 19). In his treatment of casually placed figures and his truthful manner of capturing the particular resonance of northern coastal light, Dufy recalls the achievement of an earlier painter known for his work in the Channel ports and resorts, Eugène Boudin (see lot 427).
Our artists reproduce this seascape composition in oil on canvas by hand, preserving the tonal range that makes seascape oil painting so sought after for a living room.
From primer to varnish, the work is done manually on artist-grade canvas. The absence of digital printing is deliberate: it keeps the seascape brushwork visible and gives the fauvist oil painting wall decor a museum-like finish.
As living room wall decor, this canvas brings color and texture without visual noise. It scales well from a small study to a large living room feature wall, and it is a reliable choice when shopping for seascape oil painting as a gift.
Whether the search term is seascape oil painting, living room wall decor, or fauvist oil painting wall decor, this hand painted canvas delivers the same thing: a real painted surface, made to your chosen dimensions.
| Size | Price |
|---|---|
| 20 X 24 in | $77.98 |
| 24 X 36 in | $120.48 |
| 30 X 40 in | $166.48 |
| 36 X 48 in | $221.48 |
| 48 X 72 in | $430.48 |
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