Eugène BOUDIN – Original watercolor – Study of sky over the sea.

Eugène BOUDIN (1824.1898)

Sky study over the sea – Marine study.

Watercolor over graphite lines. Circa 1865-1870.

Format 14 x 18.50 cm.

On the back of the watercolor: another study by Boudin, in pencil, depicting several sailboats on the sea.

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A magnificent study by the pre-Impressionist master, revealing his genius in painting nature, the torments of the sky, and the tranquility of the Normandy sea.

Handwritten annotation by Boudin, in pencil, in the center of the clouds:

"dark sea grey"

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No one has better described the magic born from Boudin's brush than Charles Baudelaire: “I recently saw at M. Boudin's […] several hundred pastel studies, improvised facing the sea and the sky […] All these clouds with their fantastic and luminous shapes, these chaotic shadows, these green and pink immensities suspended and added one to the other, these gaping furnaces, these firmaments of black or violet satin, crumpled, rolled or torn, these horizons in mourning or streaming with molten metal, all these depths, all these splendors rose to my brain like a heady drink or like the eloquence of opium.” Charles Baudelaire, (Salon of 1859, VII, Landscape)

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Exhibitions:

– Eugène Boudin. Salt storehouse and Eugène Boudin museum, Honfleur, 1992. No. 288, illustrated on page 60 of the catalogue.

– Eugène Boudin, the line, the touch, the stain. Aulnay-sous-Bois Town Hall Gallery, 1993. No. 72.

– Boudin and the painters in Honfleur. Travelling exhibition in Japan. 1996. No. 78.