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![Painting, Spring Tide, Claire Wiltsher](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2206678_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Three Seagulls, Gaspard Mitz](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2203370_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sunshine coast, Serhii Cherniakovskyi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2209977_1_grid.jpg)
Sunshine coast
Serhii Cherniakovskyi
Painting - 75 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 29.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,900
![Painting, Bateaux de pêcheurs à Positano, avril, Alexei Lantsev](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2207081_1_grid.jpg)
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
$3,395
![Painting, Clouds on the sea, Simon Kozhin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2209546_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Memento, Nicolas Ruelle](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2195385_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The coasts of dreams, Stanislav Lazarov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2209653_1_grid.jpg)
The coasts of dreams
Stanislav Lazarov
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,584
![Painting, Les estrans (série), Jacques Robert](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2182193_1_grid.jpg)
Les estrans (série)
Jacques Robert
Painting - 114 x 146 x 2 cm Painting - 44.9 x 57.5 x 0.8 inch
$8,487
![Photography, Encre de Mer, Laurence Gallien](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2207612_1_grid.jpg)
Encre de Mer
Laurence Gallien
Photography - 80 x 120 x 0.1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0 inch
$2,150
![Painting, Entre mer et terre, Martine Fauve Dechavanne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2204646_1_grid.jpg)
Entre mer et terre
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,282
![Print, Feuille vertes et rouge, Valérie Le Roux](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2203684_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Open Seas I, Fintan Whelan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2207429_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Faille #5, Laure-Anne Lemaire](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2209136_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Trio de bateaux, Pedro Viana Parente](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2192450_1_grid.jpg)
Trio de bateaux
Pedro Viana Parente
Painting - 73 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$1,075
![Painting, Summer sunset on the coast - Positano painting, Vincenzo Somma](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2208780_1_grid.jpg)
Summer sunset on the coast - Positano painting
Vincenzo Somma
Painting - 60 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$934
![Painting, Moods 1, Florian Maiorescu](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2205266_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Les regates bleues, Sophie Petetin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2208782_1_grid.jpg)
Les regates bleues
Sophie Petetin
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,358
![Painting, In Sight of Sete, Mike Jacobs](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2208586_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Vibration spirituelle… (Expression libre), Olivier Messas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2180511_1_grid.jpg)
Vibration spirituelle… (Expression libre)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 40 x 40 x 7 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 2.8 inch
$1,358
![Painting, Clouds are floating, Ludmila Budanov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2168058_1_grid.jpg)
Clouds are floating
Ludmila Budanov
Painting - 99.1 x 78.7 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39 x 31 x 1 inch
$1,400
![Painting, Sunset 4, JPx](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2208742_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Jaws, Benny Arte](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2209206_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Breath of Antarctica South Africa, Olga Nikitina](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2207772_1_grid.jpg)
Breath of Antarctica South Africa
Olga Nikitina
Painting - 76 x 91 x 2 cm Painting - 29.9 x 35.8 x 0.8 inch
$2,263
![Painting, Logs - Middle Beach - AGAIN. Zoom out., Chrissy Nickerson](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2196298_1_grid.jpg)
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
$1,845
![Painting, Trois barques au coucher du soleil, Josep Teixido](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2203708_1_grid.jpg)
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
$3,112
![Painting, Blu, Jayé Ouellette](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2202011_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Before the storm, Trayko Popov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2207183_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The Full Wander 3, Deborah Bakos](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2196306_1_grid.jpg)
The Full Wander 3
Deborah Bakos
Painting - 122 x 92 x 6 cm Painting - 48 x 36.2 x 2.4 inch
$1,460 $1,314
![Sculpture, Bluescale, Lionel Le Coq](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2194198_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Black Hole, Ellie Sass (Sassayiannis)](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2208759_1_grid.jpg)
Black Hole
Ellie Sass (Sassayiannis)
Painting - 42 x 30 x 0.5 cm Painting - 16.5 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
$668
![Painting, Light #4, Luca Raimondi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2168031_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Take Me There - Aerial Australia - Shark Bay #3, Ana Hefco](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2179382_1_grid.jpg)
Take Me There - Aerial Australia - Shark Bay #3
Ana Hefco
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$6,900
![Painting, Storm on the Horizon, Lee Passarella](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2167890_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Bateau le Vénus, Arcanis](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2208405_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Terrace with flowers - Amalfi painting Italy, Gianni Di Guida](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2209016_1_grid.jpg)
Terrace with flowers - Amalfi painting Italy
Gianni Di Guida
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$368
![Painting, Deep ocean, Maeva Drack](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2179242_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, La Mer, Mike King](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2185090_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Florecer II, Michele Morata](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2185075_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Ebullient III, Lyra Morgan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2196920_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Ravello sea pointview - Amalfitan Coast painting (Italy) + frame, Gio Sannino](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2190974_1_grid.jpg)
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
$413
![Painting, Llyn Peninsula, Sian McGill](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2189256_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The seagulls festival, Ricardo Fabián Bertona](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2182282_1_grid.jpg)
The seagulls festival
Ricardo Fabián Bertona
Painting - 80 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$1,350
![Painting, Sans titre, Cécile Labonne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2204701_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Santorini Magic, Sokratis Evgenidis](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2176217_1_grid.jpg)
Santorini Magic
Sokratis Evgenidis
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$6,224
![Painting, Paysage Marin 8, Christine Barrès](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2189451_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, La Terre est ronde, Frédérique Domergue](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2177011_1_grid.jpg)
La Terre est ronde
Frédérique Domergue
Painting - 35 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 13.8 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$2,150
![Painting, Untiled, Albert Willem](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2176467_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Melting Paradise, Aleksandra Osa](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2201459_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Venice - The Grand Canal, Marc Todd](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2170436_1_grid.jpg)
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
$1,597
![Painting, Line in the Sand, Natasha Lehman](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2185298_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Moon Race 2, Ruslan Kolomiyets](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2178392_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Tropiques, oiseaux blancs, Bernard Marie Collet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2178444_1_grid.jpg)
Tropiques, oiseaux blancs
Bernard Marie Collet
Painting - 100 x 70 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$2,150
![Print, Monterey Green, Nadia Attura](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1296234_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The Marker, Lorna Kirin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2189267_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Promenade (1), Benoit Ruff](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2198537_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Dans le lointain, Odette Muller](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2180220_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Ahead of the wind, Vasyl Khodakivskyi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2209785_1_grid.jpg)
Ahead of the wind
Vasyl Khodakivskyi
Painting - 85 x 75 x 1 cm Painting - 33.5 x 29.5 x 0.4 inch
$2,829
![Painting, Into the Waves, Painting, Oil on Canvas, Livia Mosanu](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2167977_1_grid.jpg)
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
$520
![Painting, Volviendo de Alojera, Antoine Renault](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2191080_1_grid.jpg)
Volviendo de Alojera
Antoine Renault
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$3,395
![Painting, Noum, Paul Maz](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/653115_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sur le sable, Valérie Betoulaud](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1164471_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sky 027 Ile d'Yeu, Claude Francheteau](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2177426_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Cité Lacustre, Tani Telas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2175716_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Monotony, Gergana Balabanova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2143348_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Deep inside, Larissa Uvarova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2179299_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Tranquil XVII - Large Blue Painting, Tiberiu Soos](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1630653_1_grid.jpg)
Tranquil XVII - Large Blue Painting
Tiberiu Soos
Painting - 80 x 140 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 55.1 x 1.6 inch
$1,697
![Painting, Villa moderniste Balion - Crète, Thierry Machuron](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2209648_1_grid.jpg)
Villa moderniste Balion - Crète
Thierry Machuron
Painting - 97 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$6,790
![Painting, Pêcheurs à la marée basse, Carlo Follini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2177790_1_grid.jpg)
Pêcheurs à la marée basse
Carlo Follini
Painting - 90 x 141 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 55.5 x 1 inch
$5,590
![Photography, That beach, Corinne Dubreuil](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/576879_1_grid.jpg)
That beach
Corinne Dubreuil
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0 inch
$1,697
![Fine Art Drawings, Paysage Minimal, Gabriel Riesnert](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2181096_1_grid.jpg)
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
$453
![Painting, Lights on the coast - Southern Italy painting & frame, Vittorio Colucci](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2199298_1_grid.jpg)
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
$396
![Photography, De Chlore et de Rosé, Christopher Barraja](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1777713_1_grid.jpg)
De Chlore et de Rosé
Christopher Barraja
Photography - 90 x 60 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 inch
$1,358
![Painting, Saint Malo III - série Paysage et mer, Nicolas Pizy](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1932405_1_grid.jpg)
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
$1,132
![Photography, Best wave IV, Tommy Schultz](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/168823_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, El Mar, Leonardo Nierman](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1368639_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Invitation, Priska Walliman](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1356933_1_grid.jpg)
Invitation
Priska Walliman
Photography - 90 x 90 x 0.4 cm Photography - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.2 inch
$1,697
![Photography, Loulou Cassis, Bernard Biancotto](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/586920_1_grid.jpg)
Loulou Cassis
Bernard Biancotto
Photography - 60 x 90 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
$679
![Painting, Gentle Breeze, Karen Hale](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1830693_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Don de soi XXVII, Feng Kaixuan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/402988_1_grid.jpg)
Don de soi XXVII
Feng Kaixuan
Photography - 80 x 120 x 1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.4 inch
$8,148
![Painting, Coque de bateau - Cargo Tamago, Marie-Annick Priou](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1964841_1_grid.jpg)
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
$1,075
![Painting, Les voiles rouges, Hélène Legrand](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1940418_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Samen onderweg, Thierry Van Vreckem](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/285400_1_grid.jpg)
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![Photography, Mediterranean Summer, Donna Carnahan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1413696_1_grid.jpg)
Mediterranean Summer
Donna Carnahan
Photography - 61 x 86 x 4 cm Photography - 24 x 33.9 x 1.6 inch
$1,000
![Painting, Ocean, Ad Van Riel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1252059_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Sans titre, Odonchimeg Davaadorj](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/358516_1_grid.jpg)
Sans titre
Odonchimeg Davaadorj
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 41.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 16.3 inch
$1,245
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![Print, Iceland 270, Mikaël Lafontan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/46003_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, A good day fishing, Mike King](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1815210_1_grid.jpg)
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
$609
![Painting, Off to the Field of dreams 5, Thein Shwe](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1325706_1_grid.jpg)
Off to the Field of dreams 5
Thein Shwe
Painting - 120 x 180 x 1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 70.9 x 0.4 inch
$14,655 $13,189
![Painting, Un autre regard, Béatrice Migliore](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/795375_1_grid.jpg)
Un autre regard
Béatrice Migliore
Painting - 54 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 21.3 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,037
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.