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Saga about Normans
Alexander Levich
Painting - 150 x 120 x 2.5 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 1 inch
$10,066
Aurore d'été... (Esprit voile 2021)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,013
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Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 110 x 200 x 0.1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 78.7 x 0 inch
$2,584 $2,197
Vol au dessus des bateaux 2
Âme Sauvage
Painting - 40 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$447
Soleil sur la mer
Andrée De Frémont
Painting - 130 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$13,422
AV_Versilia_009
Bernhard Lang
Photography - 96 x 120 x 2 cm Photography - 37.8 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,226
Free Sea - Baltic Sea
Marko Fenske
Painting - 38.1 x 55.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 15 x 22 x 0.1 inch
$846
Breaking The Surface
Anthony Dunphy
Painting - 40.6 x 50.8 x 0.8 cm Painting - 16 x 20 x 0.3 inch
$760
Cabo Rojo view Puerto Rico
John Kilduff
Fine Art Drawings - 29.5 x 41.9 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.6 x 16.5 x 0.1 inch
$545
Crow's Nest Saugatuck, MI
John Kilduff
Fine Art Drawings - 29.5 x 41.9 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.6 x 16.5 x 0.1 inch
$545
Riflesso blue II
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 50.8 x 50.8 x 5.1 cm Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 inch
$1,600
Les falaises grises
Sophie Dumont
Painting - 97 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$7,158
Man jumping our of the water, Two: From Motion Series
Ricky Cohete
Photography - 91.4 x 61 x 0.3 cm Photography - 36 x 24 x 0.1 inch
$2,222
Bodice of Man: from the Blanco Series. Archival Pigment print, Sepia
Ricky Cohete
Photography - 91.4 x 61 x 0.3 cm Photography - 36 x 24 x 0.1 inch
$2,222
Trait de côte - 2
Jean Valera
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.3 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
$213
Boats in the Bay
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 90 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,572
Beautiful Time
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 90 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$2,684
Boats and Fish
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 150 x 90 x 0.3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 35.4 x 0.1 inch
$3,355
Dunes
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 90 x 150 x 0.3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 59.1 x 0.1 inch
$2,461
Butterfly Effect (1)
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 130 x 100 x 0.3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 39.4 x 0.1 inch
$2,628
Sunny and Windy
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 80 x 110 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 43.3 x 0.8 inch
$2,349
Venetian Rhapsody
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 90 x 150 x 0.3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 59.1 x 0.1 inch
$2,796
Element
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 90 x 150 x 0.3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 59.1 x 0.1 inch
$2,796
Venice red
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 90 x 150 x 0.3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 59.1 x 0.1 inch
$2,796
Paysage méditerranéen
Pierrick Tual
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$3,221
Tempête à Quiberon
Jean-Baptiste Itah
Painting - 39 x 106 x 3 cm Painting - 15.4 x 41.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,342
Lockdown on the beach, Rabat Morocco
Kevin Jordan O'Shea
Photography - 15 x 22 x 0.3 cm Photography - 5.9 x 8.7 x 0.1 inch
$179
La Grande Plage, Biarritz France
Kevin Jordan O'Shea
Photography - 30 x 45 x 0.3 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0.1 inch
$447
Off to the Field of dreams 7
Thein Shwe
Painting - 89 x 74 x 1 cm Painting - 35 x 29.1 x 0.4 inch
$8,668
Untitled, Essaouira Morocco.
Kevin Jordan O'Shea
Photography - 30 x 45 x 0.3 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0.1 inch
$470
Untilted, Marseille France.
Kevin Jordan O'Shea
Photography - 30 x 45 x 0.3 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0.1 inch
$503
Le reflet du ciel
Valérie-Anne Bertin
Painting - 46 x 38 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 15 x 0.8 inch
$951
A la plage, l'heure du bain.
Nicolaï
Painting - 50 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,013
Tema marinero
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,230
Toujours recommencer
Christophe Vilar
Painting - 117 x 90 x 5 cm Painting - 46.1 x 35.4 x 2 inch
$6,711
Fluid horizon XIV
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,114
Fluid horizon XLI
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,114
Escale à Sanary-sur-mer
Béatrice Migliore
Painting - 46 x 55 x 2.5 cm Painting - 18.1 x 21.7 x 1 inch
$1,510
L'entrée du Port de Bretagne
Omar Logang
Painting - 38 x 46 x 3 cm Painting - 15 x 18.1 x 1.2 inch
$895
The emotional creation #229
Carla Sá Fernandes
Painting - 150 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$8,948
Harbor near Bali. Crete.
Simon Kozhin
Painting - 90 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$16,777
Evening. Aragon castle. Ischia. Italy
Simon Kozhin
Painting - 60 x 75 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 29.5 x 0.8 inch
$16,700
Evening in Marmaris
Simon Kozhin
Painting - 70 x 110 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 43.3 x 0.8 inch
$17,700
Mountains. Patagonia. Chile. Torres del Paine
Simon Kozhin
Painting - 40 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$7,000
Boats Paleokastritsa
Simon Kozhin
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$16,500
Yachts in the bay of Bali
Simon Kozhin
Painting - 60 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$11,723
En attendant la vague
Perrine Vilmot
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,461
Le café de la plage
Perrine Vilmot
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,461
Transats à l’anglaise
Sophie de la Happy Funky Family
Painting - 33 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 13 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$660
Full Moon Over Ponza
Adriano Bernetti da Vila
Painting - 80 x 80 x 0.1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$5,592
Australian Waves
Adriano Bernetti da Vila
Painting - 70 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$3,355
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.