Georges Lacombe

Marine bleue, Effet de vague

The Cliffs At Camaret, c.1892















A member of the Post-Impressionist group known as Les Nabis (the Prophets), Lacombe is better known as a sculptor. The Nabis emulated Gauguin, and sought to strengthen line, form  and design, things sometimes overly dissolved by the Impressionists.
The group were fond of the fields and coast of Brittany.
The influence of Japanese prints is obvious in Cliffs at Camaret, in particular.

The Moran Brothers

Thomas Moran, The Receding Wave.
Edward Moran, Cliffs in a Storm


















These two works are from an upcoming sothebys sale.

Harry van der Weyden

Jason Cordero

Jason Cordero is a South Australian artist whose sublime, ethereal landscapes and seascapes have won many prizes.
See more of his work at his website: jasoncordero.com

Rocks

Some marines I found on the Bonhams auction house site. I neglected to post them when the auction was current, in September last year. But better late than never.

There's a lot of white paint, contrasted with near blacks, in these works, which are all (I think) of rocky parts of East Coast of the US.

The first one is by Abraham Bogdanove, an artist born in Minsk (now in Belarus) who found the Maine Coast (particularly the rugged rocks of Monhegan Island) an endless source of inspiration.

The second is by contemporary painter Michael B Karas.

Two works by Frederick Judd Waugh follow.


Here are some beautiful nautical works from an upcoming Bonhams marine auction
http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/20482/

Montague Dawson, Eventide.
Antonio Jacobsen, the ship County of Ediburgh stranded on a beach.
Antonio Jacobsen, The ship El Rio at sea.

Painting the Invisible

Giuseppe de Nittis, The Sea during a Tempest, 1877.
Attilio Pratella, Fisher boats on the sea by Capri.
Giovanni Fattori, Storm.
Pietro Fragiacomo, Nocturne.

These Italian marines first struck me as slightly boring in their simplicity, but the more I looked at them, or into them, the more evocative they became.
The main subject of the composition seems to be just a boat or a bush, but the real subject of each painting is something less concrete: the power of a storm, the stillness of a shallow bay, the marine wind on a deserted beach, or the soothing wonder of moonlight on water.
These invisible inner qualities make a painting great.

Winslow Homer Exhibition

Only a couple of weeks left to see an exhibition of late works by Winslow Homer, produced while he was living on the coast of Maine.
The exhibition, at the Portland Museum of Art, closes on December 30th.

For more information about the exhibition, visit the website: portlandmuseum.org