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Fisherwoman
Artush Voskanyan
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€2,704 €2,298
Diptych 4, From the series All the faults of the world
Rodrigo Etem
Photography - 94 x 100.3 x 0.3 cm Photography - 37 x 39.5 x 0.1 inch
€1,835
The beginning – III
Alexander Levich
Painting - 75 x 75 x 2 cm Painting - 29.5 x 29.5 x 0.8 inch
€2,750
Two boats in silence
Lukasz Zalucki
Painting - 115 x 75 x 3 cm Painting - 45.3 x 29.5 x 1.2 inch
€1,200
Flight over the sea
Lukasz Zalucki
Painting - 70 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€1,120
Boulder Country
Despa Hondros
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 77 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 30.3 x 0 inch
€2,200
Riflesso blue II
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 50.8 x 50.8 x 5.1 cm Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 inch
€1,545
Moonlight surfing
Yaroslav Yasenev
Painting - 110 x 85 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 33.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,200
Ebb and Flow
Angela Morris-Winmill
Painting - 120 x 152 x 8 cm Painting - 47.2 x 59.8 x 3.1 inch
€7,268
On est notre environnement (Valerie Galice)
Aline Part
Photography - 60 x 40 x 0.2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
€600
Sans titre (Côtes d'Armor)
Jacques Robert
Painting - 80 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
€5,900
Le Mont-Saint-Michel - série Paysage et mer
Nicolas Pizy
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.4 inch
€530
Cargo de nuit 1 - Paysage et mer
Nicolas Pizy
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.4 inch
€530
Les embruns - série Paysage et mer
Nicolas Pizy
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.4 inch
€530
Les falaises grises
Sophie Dumont
Painting - 97 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
€6,400
Laguna di Venezia
Andrea Benetti
Painting - 60 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€3,300
Many Kinds of Absence (Antarctica)
Jessica Houston
Photography - 55.9 x 83.8 cm Photography - 22 x 33 inch
€3,000
1282 Clearwater Beach
Roger König
Painting - 130 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€13,000
Falaises Quiberville sur mer
Laurence Gasior
Painting - 38 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 15 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
€1,050
Green water - minimalism sea
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
€3,000
Procession laïque
Christophe Vilar
Painting - 90 x 117 x 5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 46.1 x 2 inch
€6,000
Port city, the arrival of big ship (inspired by Piraeus, Athens, Greece)
Silvia Karamfilova
Painting - 30 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
€1,800
World spins madly on
Gisela Gaffoglio
Painting - 90 x 190 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 74.8 x 1.2 inch
€3,700
La Méduse - série scène de pêche en bâteau
Alain Arnouil
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€750
DEAUVILLE LES PARASOLS, ON ARRIVE
Sophie Petetin
Painting - 41 x 65 x 3 cm Painting - 16.1 x 25.6 x 1.2 inch
€895
Seascape Landscape, Sea Painting - Monet Cliff
Dasha Pogodina
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€500
Couleurs à l'horizon… (Esprit voile)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 40 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
€1,700
ENSEMBLE LA BAS POUR LA VIE
Sophie Petetin
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1 inch
€1,950
Viens je t'emmène
Sophie Petetin
Painting - 150 x 50 x 2.5 cm Painting - 59.1 x 19.7 x 1 inch
€1,200
PETIT MATIN A GRAND BAIE
Sophie Petetin
Painting - 54 x 65 x 2.5 cm Painting - 21.3 x 25.6 x 1 inch
€895
FLIC AND FLAC DESSINES MOI DES BATEAUX
Sophie Petetin
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 1 inch
€890
REGATES, ON TRACE AU VENT
Sophie Petetin
Painting - 70 x 60 x 2.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 23.6 x 1 inch
€1,200
REGATES, ON TRACE SOUS LE VENT
Sophie Petetin
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 1 inch
€990
Dunepath to the sea (in exhibition)
Peter de Boer
Painting - 70 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,820
Allez à la drisse
Carine Dewavrin
Painting - 74 x 92 x 2 cm Painting - 29.1 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
€1,400
Le trio de pointus
Pedro Viana Parente
Painting - 40 x 50 x 0.2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
€850
When the sea merges with the sky.
Vik Schroeder
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€500
The sky and the sea
Eva Hoffmann
Painting - 144.8 x 172.7 x 2.5 cm Painting - 57 x 68 x 1 inch
€15,450
Esperando que suba la marea
Jose Ramón Campomanes
Painting - 80 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
€850
Porthcurno Beach
Nicholas Robertson
Painting - 30.5 x 40.4 x 0.5 cm Painting - 12 x 15.9 x 0.2 inch
€505
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.