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

Eugene Boudin (1824.1898)

Sky study over the sea – Marine study.

Watercolor over graphite lines. Circa 1865-1870.

Size 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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Magnificent study by the pre-Impressionist master revealing his genius for 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 gray”

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No one has better described the magic born from Boudin's brush than Charles Baudelaire: “I recently saw at Mr. Boudin's […] several hundred pastel studies, improvised facing the sea and the sky […] All these clouds with fantastic and luminous shapes, these chaotic darknesses, these green and pink immensities suspended and added to each other, these gaping furnaces, these firmaments of black or purple satin, crumpled, rolled or torn, these mourning or streaming horizons of 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:

- Eugene Boudin. Salt granary and Eugène Boudin museum, Honfleur, 1992. No. 288, illustrated on page 60 of the catalog.

– Eugène Boudin, the line, the touch, the task. Gallery of the town hall of Aulnay-sous-Bois, 1993. No. 72.

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