Tag: beach

Régates à Sainte-Adresse (1867)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Régates à Sainte-Adresse (Regatta at Sainte-Adresse) 1867 Oil on canvas, 75.2 x 101.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Monet spent the summer of 1867 at Sainte-Adresse, a well-to-do suburb of Le Havre on the Normandy…

Luxe, calme et volupté (1904)

Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Luxe, calme et volupté (Luxury, Calm and Pleasure) 1904 Oil on canvas, 98.5 x 118.5 x 2.2 cm Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris © Succession H. Matisse, Paris Luxe, calme et volupté testifies to the work Henri Matisse…

Castle Island (Boston)

Castle Island in Art: Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) Castle Island, Boston Harbor 1916 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LA     See also: • Boston, MA (USA)

I Raro te Oviri (1891)

Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) I Raro te Oviri (Under the Pandanus) 1891 Oil on canvas, 67.31 x 90.8 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas In his mid-thirties, Paul Gauguin abandoned his life as a stockbroker to become an artist. He sought to…

Femmes de Tahiti, ou Sur la plage (1891)

Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Femmes de Tahiti, ou Sur la plage (Tahitian Women on the Beach) 1891 Oil on canvas, 69 x 91.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris In 1891, Gauguin went to Tahiti, an island he imagined to be a primitive paradise. The…

Marine à Sainte-Adresse (1865)

Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) Marine à Sainte-Adresse (Beach at Sainte-Adresse) 1865 Oil on canvas, 58.4 x 140 cm High Museum of Art, Atlanta On a windy, overcast day on the northern coast of France, fishing boats ply the choppy waters. In this unsentimental…

Moulin Huet Bay (Guernsey)

Moulin Huet Bay in Art: Renoir, Auguste (1841-1919) Collines autour de la baie de Moulin Huet 1883 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York     Renoir, Auguste (1841-1919) Moulin Huet Bay, Guernesey c.1883 National Gallery, London     See also:…