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.

Upcoming Christie's Auction

Jules-Achilles Noel (French), Battling the Elements, 35.6 x 65.1 cm.
Michael Vaughan (English), Sunlight through the rigging, oil and acrylic, 55.3 x 81.4 cm.
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Pavlo Prosalentis (Greek), Steam Yatch foundering in a Storm.
David James (Irish-English), Lashing waters of the Atlantic, 1896, 25 x 50 inches.

Lots in an upcoming Maritim Art sale at Christie's.
www.christies.com

MacConnal-Mason Gallery

Montague Dawson, A Roll to Loo'ard, 1956

David James, The Morning Tide, 1898

Philip Sadee, Bringing in the Catch, 1879

These works are for sale at the MacConnal-Mason fine art gallery in London:
www.macconnal-mason.com

Maritime Time

Charles Vickery, Racing Clippers 'Ariel' and 'Taeping', 30 x 40 inches.
Geoff Hunt
Harvey T. Dunn, For a Space of Minutes, 1915
Unknown, Rogue Wave, Queen Mary
Gordon Grant

Viking Ships

William Ritschel
Christian Krohg, Leif Erikson
Francis Dicksee, Viking Funeral
NC Wyeth

Geoff Hunt

HMAS Belona
Nina and Pinta Racing Home, 1493.
I think I've posted the top image before but this one is of better quality.

A photo of UK marine artist Geoff Hunt using a mahl stick: a support for the brush hand, padded at one end so as not to damage the canvas. A mahl stick is particularly handy for detail work... and for fending off stray animals who wander into the studio. 

Here's a link to instructions for making your own mahl stick: kimcpell artblog

Geoff's work combines painstakingly accurate detail with dramatic compositions.

Ludolf Backhuysen

Ludolf Bakhuizen (or Backhuysen) (1630 – 1708) was a German-born Dutch Golden Age painter who was the leading Dutch painter of maritime subjects after the two Willem van de Veldes (father and son) left for England in 1672.
Backhuizen specialized in scenes of ships caught in storms, exploiting the dramatic tonal contrasts of white sails and spray against dark clouds and deep wave troughs. He is said to have risked his life while venturing out into stormy seas to observe the forces of nature. The clouds in these works are wonderful, and just as important as the waves.

Women On Deck

Emanuel Phillips Fox, Australian, The Ferry.
Julius LeBlanc Stewart, American, On the Yacht Namouna, Venice. 
Raoul Du Gardier, White Calm, Telfair Museum.

This is a kind of sub-genre of nautical painting that seems to have been popular in the late 19th century and early 20th century. It had plenty of scope for interesting compositions combining figures, cloth, linear elements (both curving and straight) and seascape.

A Peaceful Christmas

James Tissot, Christ Asleep During the Storm
Not sure of the medium here. Could be gouache or watercolor, or a combination.

Tissot (French, 1836–1902) is best known for his depictions of fashionable Parisian women (as in the centre image: HMAS Culcutta, painted in 1877, which looks like an oil), but in his later years he turned to illustrating scenes from the Old and New Testament.

The Hull of a Battle Ship (bottom image) definitely looks like an oil.

Montague Dawson at Vallejo Gallery

Rounding Cape Horn
Escaping Smuggler
Vallejo Gallery

Montague Dawson

These are two images of Dawson's The Fleet Messenger, found on different websites. They demonstrate that reproductions can differ greatly from the original, and each other.

Thanks to the blog underpaintings for originally posting this work.

Schooners

The three masted schooner "Atlantic" at the start of the Transatlantic Race, May 17th 1905

A wonderful example of contemporary marine painting by the New Zealander AD Blake.

Michael Zeno Diemer - German 1867-1939

Running with the Tide, 38 x 55 inches.

Sailboat, 23.5 x 32.75 inches.

A fishing vessel running before the wind off the Albanian Coast, 44.5 x 59.7 cm.

To see another painting in an older post, click here.

Atmosphere

HMS Bellona. An English man-o'-war of Nelson's Era, by Geoff Hunt. Appears on the cover of Patrick O'Brian's book "The Yellow Admiral".

There's a marvellous feeling of space in this work, by the English marine painter Geoff Hunt, due to the use of increasingly desaturated tones with distance. On the nearest ship we can see a slight obscuring of the bow in comparison with the stern.

in the work below, the more distant vessels have almost disappeared in the dense atmosphere of driving rain.

Both painters have opted for a composition based on three vessels, with the added interest of a different object - a rowboat - linked to the largest vessel. A trinity is more visually appealing than a duality. Generally, odd numbers are better than even.

Arthur Briscoe, English, 1873-1943, The White Squall, 26 x 40 inches

Thomas Jacques Somerscales - English 1842-1927

Off Valparaiso, 965 x 1803 mm











A Barque Running Before a Gale, 1910, 40.7 x 56 cm

John William Waterhouse - English

Ulysses and the Sirens, 1891

Tristan and Isolde

The Mermaid

Danae

Miranda

Waterhouse was the last of the Pre-Raphaelite painters, sometimes called 'the modern Pre-Raphaelite'. His work differs from that of the earlier PR painters as he picked up some of the techniques of the Impressionists, and his brushwork is more painterly. Last year there was a large retrospective exhibition of his work that travelled to galleries in the Netherlands, the UK, and Canada.