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The Grand Dock at Le Havre - Claude Monet - Oil Painting brings gallery-caliber art into everyday spaces. This fine art 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.
Le Grand Quai au Le Havre
1872
Oil on canvas
61 x 81 cm
Collection of Otto Krebs, Holzdorf
Now in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
In 1874, Monet travelled to his native Havre. The purpose of the trip was to prepare new works for the forthcoming exhibition. The present picture is one of the four paintings produced during his stay in Havre. Not without prompting from Japanese woodcuts, Monet "carved" his compositional structure. With this forest of masts and smokestacks, and the piles of barrels and bales of goods in the foreground, he conveys the sense of an extremely busy port, with ships departing for the ends of the earth as well as for Caen, the main city of the neighbouring département of Calvados. The juxtaposition of tall smokestacks of the ships in front with the masts of the fishing vessels behind reveals the onset of the industrial age, in spite of Monet's residual Romanticism. The picture shows a sunny day. Unfortunately, the weather changed and the painting remained not quite finished - the artist evidently did not want to spoil it by trying to complete it without consulting nature.
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We use a 100% hand-painted process: stretched artist-grade canvas, layered oil pigment, and a final protective varnish. There are no inkjet prints or mechanical reproductions in this collection — just a painted fine art artwork made to order.
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| Size | Price |
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| 20 X 24 in | $58.48 |
| 24 X 36 in | $91.98 |
| 30 X 40 in | $123.48 |
| 36 X 48 in | $176.98 |
| 48 X 72 in | $329.48 |
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