Eugène BOUDIN 1824-1898
Trouville. Chenal marée basse (Trouville. Low tide channel), 1889
Oil on panel
35,3 x 26,2 cm – 13.89 x 10.31 in.
With frame:
47 x 41 cm – 18.50 x 16.14 in.
With frame:
47 x 41 cm – 18.50 x 16.14 in.
Signed and dated lower left
Eugène Boudin is the painter par excellence of 'blurred skies', of changing light, of fleeting atmospheres, of the pearly grey of clouds and the lapping of harbors, of their large...
Eugène Boudin is the painter par excellence of "blurred skies", of changing light, of fleeting atmospheres, of the pearly grey of clouds and the lapping of harbors, of their large three-masted ships, infinite themes of his research.
Here, Boudin gave the sky a nice part of his canvas. His quivering touch exalts the values of sketching and suggestion, effects that the Impressionists, and especially his friend Claude Monet, were able to amplify.
If Boudin is one of the spiritual fathers of Impressionism, he is also the undisputed master of marine atmospheres and meteorological beauties, as Charles Baudelaire wrote.
