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Bateaux de pêcheurs à Positano, avril
Alexei Lantsev
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€3,000
Encre de Mer
Laurence Gallien
Photography - 80 x 120 x 0.1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0 inch
€1,900
Breath of Antarctica South Africa
Olga Nikitina
Painting - 76 x 91 x 2 cm Painting - 29.9 x 35.8 x 0.8 inch
€2,000
Les estrans (série)
Jacques Robert
Painting - 114 x 146 x 2 cm Painting - 44.9 x 57.5 x 0.8 inch
€7,500
Logs - Middle Beach - AGAIN. Zoom out.
Chrissy Nickerson
Painting - 64 x 92 x 4 cm Painting - 25.2 x 36.2 x 1.6 inch
€1,630
Vibration spirituelle… (Expression libre)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 40 x 40 x 7 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 2.8 inch
€1,200
Clouds are floating
Ludmila Budanov
Painting - 99.1 x 78.7 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39 x 31 x 1 inch
€1,343
Trois barques au coucher du soleil
Josep Teixido
Painting - 65 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
€2,750
The seagulls festival
Ricardo Fabián Bertona
Painting - 80 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
€1,295
French Terrace Tranquility
Alexander Grinshpun
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,919
Ravello sea pointview - Amalfitan Coast painting (Italy) + frame
Gio Sannino
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€365
Douceur d'aquarelle 2
Michel Saint-Luc
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,400
Santorini Magic
Sokratis Evgenidis
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€5,500
La Terre est ronde
Frédérique Domergue
Painting - 35 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 13.8 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
€1,900
Rampant horse on the sea - Italian painting & frame
Romano Mussolini
Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
€650
Venice - The Grand Canal
Marc Todd
Painting - 102.1 x 75.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 40.2 x 29.9 x 0.7 inch
€1,532
Amalfi flowery road - Italian painting + frame
Vincenzo Somma
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€500
Tropiques, oiseaux blancs
Bernard Marie Collet
Painting - 100 x 70 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
€1,900
Into the Waves, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Livia Mosanu
Painting - 27.9 x 35.6 x 2 cm Painting - 11 x 14 x 0.8 inch
€499
Volviendo de Alojera
Antoine Renault
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€3,000
Série bleu et blanc #2
Pedro Viana Parente
Painting - 39 x 28.5 x 0.5 cm Painting - 15.4 x 11.2 x 0.2 inch
€350
Lights on the coast - Southern Italy painting & frame
Vittorio Colucci
Painting - 25 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 9.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€350
Evening silence
Vasyl Khodakivskyi
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,800
Suspension entre deux mondes
Carole Framezelle - Acmiya
Painting - 96 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 37.8 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,440
Tranquil XVII - Large Blue Painting
Tiberiu Soos
Painting - 80 x 140 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 55.1 x 1.6 inch
€1,500
Pêcheurs à la marée basse
Carlo Follini
Painting - 90 x 141 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 55.5 x 1 inch
€5,163
That beach
Corinne Dubreuil
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0 inch
€1,500
Paysage Minimal
Gabriel Riesnert
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 21 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
€400
Saint Malo III - série Paysage et mer
Nicolas Pizy
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,000
De Chlore et de Rosé
Christopher Barraja
Photography - 90 x 60 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 inch
€1,200
Invitation
Priska Walliman
Photography - 90 x 90 x 0.4 cm Photography - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.2 inch
€1,500
Loulou Cassis
Bernard Biancotto
Photography - 60 x 90 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
€600
Don de soi XXVII
Feng Kaixuan
Photography - 80 x 120 x 1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.4 inch
€7,200
Coque de bateau - Cargo Tamago
Marie-Annick Priou
Painting - 80 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
€950
Sans titre
Odonchimeg Davaadorj
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 41.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 16.3 inch
€1,100
A good day fishing
Mike King
Fine Art Drawings - 53.3 x 38.1 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 15 x 0.1 inch
€584
Un autre regard
Béatrice Migliore
Painting - 54 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 21.3 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,800
Mediterranean Summer
Donna Carnahan
Photography - 61 x 86 x 4 cm Photography - 24 x 33.9 x 1.6 inch
€959
Sea and moon
Josep Miquel Paufila
Painting - 50 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
€1,500
Série silence #1
Lionel Chevalier
Painting - 65 x 81 x 2.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 31.9 x 1 inch
€1,500
Ombre et lumière sur Pilat
Myriam Démarez Gérat
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€720
R E C Y C L É - ZB-021019
Arseneca
Painting - 146 x 110 x 0.5 cm Painting - 57.5 x 43.3 x 0.2 inch
€890
Sea
Majestic and tyrannical, the sea has never ceased to fascinate artists. Untameable, this force of nature seems to have a life of its own and has inspired many artists. Since antiquity, the sea has been represented in all its glory, century after century it is honoured through various styles and colours. However, this desire to escape to the great outdoors is certainly not only reserved for 21st century painters
Maritime art began at the same time as history painting - in the 15th century, and they share many common traits. Maritime painting mostly depicts scenes of combat, historical incidents and mythology where people play a crucial role. It wasn't until the 17th century that artists stopped depicting people in their seascapes and focused solely on the representation of the landscape itself instead.
In the Middle Ages, shipwrecks and storms terrorised citizens as they interpreted them as signs of God's wrath. he church even used images of the rough sea to hold power over its believers.
Representations in classical painting were strictly governed by academic rules, and often didn't manage to convey true emotion. Maritime scenes joined the mainstream in the 19th century, especially with the arrival of the Romantic period as emotions played a much greater role in marine painting. The two great masters of the period were J.M.W Turner and Caspar David Friedrich who captured the attention of their contemporaries and whose works continue to mesmerise us today.
For the impressionists, the sea was a sublimation of nature. During the 19th century, artists come out of their studios in order to paint and describe nature as they saw and feel it. By the end of the 19th century, the sea was no longer a simple, blue expanse but rather an eruption of emotions illuminated through painting.
Contemporary art offers a new insight into creation. Today, the technique is overrun by the message and intention of the work. Therefore, we find all varieties of sea illustrations where the sea becomes an image of contemporary creation. Even though the sea is sometimes reinvented, it remains true to reality.
The new generation of contemporary artists create works that depict freshness, escape, lost coves, waves, and that salty seaside air. Discover our selection inspired by ocean waters.