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![Painting, Ferragosto, Galya Popova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1999692_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Migration 4, Jour 40, Patrice Palacio](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1965708_1_grid.jpg)
Migration 4, Jour 40
Patrice Palacio
Painting - 70 x 50 x 5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 2 inch
€3,200
![Painting, Migration 4, Jour 37, Patrice Palacio](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1965693_1_grid.jpg)
Migration 4, Jour 37
Patrice Palacio
Painting - 70 x 50 x 5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 2 inch
€3,200
![Painting, Migration 4, Jour 35, Patrice Palacio](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1965681_1_grid.jpg)
Migration 4, Jour 35
Patrice Palacio
Painting - 70 x 50 x 5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 2 inch
€3,200
![Painting, Migration 4, Jour 33, Patrice Palacio](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1965651_1_grid.jpg)
Migration 4, Jour 33
Patrice Palacio
Painting - 70 x 50 x 5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 2 inch
€3,200
![Painting, Migration 4, Jour 26, Patrice Palacio](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1965609_1_grid.jpg)
Migration 4, Jour 26
Patrice Palacio
Painting - 70 x 50 x 5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 2 inch
€3,200
![Painting, Migration 4, Jour 25, Patrice Palacio](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1965606_1_grid.jpg)
Migration 4, Jour 25
Patrice Palacio
Painting - 70 x 50 x 5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 2 inch
€3,200
![Painting, Migration 4, Jour 23, Patrice Palacio](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1965600_1_grid.jpg)
Migration 4, Jour 23
Patrice Palacio
Painting - 70 x 50 x 5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 2 inch
€3,200
![Painting, Migration 4, Jour 21, Patrice Palacio](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1965585_1_grid.jpg)
Migration 4, Jour 21
Patrice Palacio
Painting - 70 x 50 x 5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 2 inch
€3,200
![Painting, Migration 4, Jour 19, Patrice Palacio](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1965576_1_grid.jpg)
Migration 4, Jour 19
Patrice Palacio
Painting - 70 x 50 x 5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 2 inch
€3,200
![Painting, Migration 4, Jour 18, Patrice Palacio](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1965570_1_grid.jpg)
Migration 4, Jour 18
Patrice Palacio
Painting - 70 x 50 x 5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 2 inch
€3,200
![Painting, Migration 4, Jour 16, Patrice Palacio](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1965558_1_grid.jpg)
Migration 4, Jour 16
Patrice Palacio
Painting - 70 x 50 x 5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 2 inch
€3,200
![Painting, Surf, Sun & Sand XIV, Peter Goodhall](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1884924_1_grid.jpg)
Surf, Sun & Sand XIV
Peter Goodhall
Painting - 77 x 127 x 3 cm Painting - 30.3 x 50 x 1.2 inch
€2,478
![Painting, Roccapina, Pauline Guillemard](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1754805_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Les voiles, Dany Soyer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1655448_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Ocean magic, Iryna Kastsova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1553046_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Dance of glare on the water 2., Iryna Kastsova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1548210_1_grid.jpg)
Dance of glare on the water 2.
Iryna Kastsova
Painting - 80 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
€2,200
![Painting, Le voilier, Dany Soyer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1186692_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, There, Ruslan Kolomiyets](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2176330_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Hamburg, Elbphilharmonie, Wellengang, Frank Suplie](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2156260_1_grid.jpg)
Hamburg, Elbphilharmonie, Wellengang
Frank Suplie
Painting - 110 x 135 x 4 cm Painting - 43.3 x 53.1 x 1.6 inch
€15,200
![Painting, In front of the blue sea, Elisa Bonotti](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2155906_1_grid.jpg)
In front of the blue sea
Elisa Bonotti
Painting - 50 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
€390
![Painting, Les falaises en Normandie, Christophe Thiry](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1788147_1_grid.jpg)
Les falaises en Normandie
Christophe Thiry
Painting - 60 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
€3,200
![Painting, Voiles, Bridg'](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1476198_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Trait de côte, Jean Valera](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1347543_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Quai-main-tri, le Chalut, Marie-Noëlle Deverre](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1284693_1_grid.jpg)
Quai-main-tri, le Chalut
Marie-Noëlle Deverre
Print - 139 x 89 x 0.1 cm Print - 54.7 x 35 x 0 inch
€2,400
![Print, Porifera, Marie-Noëlle Deverre](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1284675_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, PLAGE DE L'OUEST, DOUCE MAREE, Sophie Petetin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/901056_1_grid.jpg)
PLAGE DE L'OUEST, DOUCE MAREE
Sophie Petetin
Print - 40 x 40 x 0.5 cm Print - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.2 inch
€129
![Photography, About Informal Photography, Léa Bon](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/692517_1_grid.jpg)
About Informal Photography
Léa Bon
Photography - 83 x 55 x 0.3 cm Photography - 32.68 x 21.65 x 0.1 inch
€3,396
![Photography, Trait de côte, Jean Valera](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/659067_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Amalfi flowery road - Italian painting + frame, Vincenzo Somma](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2177152_1_grid.jpg)
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
€485
![Painting, Evening light, Brigitte Dravet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2176844_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Wasp (Adam and Eve), Alexander Levich](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2122656_1_grid.jpg)
Wasp (Adam and Eve)
Alexander Levich
Painting - 120 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
€4,300
![Painting, Plage de Portzic, cordon, Franck Dupire](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2106948_1_grid.jpg)
Plage de Portzic, cordon
Franck Dupire
Painting - 38 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 15 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
€430
![Painting, Besando la orilla, María Elena Olmo, del](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1988868_1_grid.jpg)
Besando la orilla
María Elena Olmo, del
Painting - 30 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€450
![Painting, Départ et arrivée, ZiB](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1956630_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, On the shore no. 6, Tadas Dromantas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1845546_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Mar II, Lluís Puiggrós](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1632327_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Mar I, Lluís Puiggrós](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1632300_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, No Name - I, Alexander Levich](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1627161_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, No Name - II, Alexander Levich](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1627158_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The Couple, Alexander Levich](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1627155_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Yellow Flag, Alexander Levich](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1627149_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Labyrinth, Alexander Levich](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1627065_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Tree, Alexander Levich](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1627035_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Dry Grass, Alexander Levich](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1626999_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Horizon Line – I, Alexander Levich](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1621821_1_grid.jpg)
Horizon Line – I
Alexander Levich
Painting - 50 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€2,600
![Painting, Horizon Line – II, Alexander Levich](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1621803_1_grid.jpg)
Horizon Line – II
Alexander Levich
Painting - 50 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€2,600
![Painting, Horizon Line – III, Alexander Levich](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1621791_1_grid.jpg)
Horizon Line – III
Alexander Levich
Painting - 45 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 17.7 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€2,600
![Painting, Horizon Line – IV, Alexander Levich](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1621773_1_grid.jpg)
Horizon Line – IV
Alexander Levich
Painting - 50 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€2,600
![Painting, Horizon Line – V, Alexander Levich](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1621764_1_grid.jpg)
Horizon Line – V
Alexander Levich
Painting - 45 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 17.7 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€2,600
![Painting, Horizon Line – VI, Alexander Levich](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1620537_1_grid.jpg)
Horizon Line – VI
Alexander Levich
Painting - 50 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€2,600
![Painting, Lucky, Alexander Levich](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1607955_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Cabina rossa, Tino Stefanoni](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1511982_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Faro bianco e rosso, Tino Stefanoni](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1505709_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Faro centrale, Tino Stefanoni](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1503369_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Trait de côte II, Jean Valera](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1344690_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Sandbar, Jill Peters](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/836247_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Regatta, Diana Malivani](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/532376_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Cyanotypie Herbier sous marin N°1, Aurélie Trabaud](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2150365_1_grid.jpg)
Cyanotypie Herbier sous marin N°1
Aurélie Trabaud
Painting - 100 x 148 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 58.3 x 0.6 inch
€1,280
![Painting, Fishing boats night version - Amalfi painting seaside, Vincenzo Somma](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2144017_1_grid.jpg)
Fishing boats night version - Amalfi painting seaside
Vincenzo Somma
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€325
![Painting, Arch to the sea, Narek Qochunc](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2092590_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Romantic dinner, Narek Qochunc](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2084529_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Surfing, Trayko Popov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1969680_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, De Chlore et de Rosé, Christopher Barraja](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1902654_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, La côte fleurie, Sophie Dumont](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1886613_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Underwater, Trayko Popov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1763106_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Lacanau Beach mini, Aurélie Trabaud](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1686750_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Untitled 34, Issa Halloum](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1686180_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Untitled 33, Issa Halloum](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1686171_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Untitled 30, Issa Halloum](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1686066_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Untitled 13, Issa Halloum](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1685778_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Untitled 31, Issa Halloum](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1684869_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Falaises, Sophie Dumont](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1605393_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, La vague, Aurélie Trabaud](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1585215_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Walking on the beach, Trayko Popov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1577694_1_grid.jpg)
Walking on the beach
Trayko Popov
Painting - 55 x 75 x 0.5 cm Painting - 21.7 x 29.5 x 0.2 inch
€545
![Painting, Dive into the Blue - Jumping, Trayko Popov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1554315_1_grid.jpg)
Dive into the Blue - Jumping
Trayko Popov
Painting - 55 x 38 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 15 x 0.8 inch
€520
![Painting, Arrival at the beach, Peter de Boer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1524096_1_grid.jpg)
Arrival at the beach
Peter de Boer
Painting - 80 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€2,475
![Photography, Chichin Seahore (Vision of Taiwan), Cheng Chang Wu](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/855708_1_grid.jpg)
Chichin Seahore (Vision of Taiwan)
Cheng Chang Wu
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.3 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.1 inch
€2,522
![Photography, La série : Orogenèse - Le Gray, Joan Fontcuberta](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/465583_1_grid.jpg)
La série : Orogenèse - Le Gray
Joan Fontcuberta
Photography - 75 x 100 cm Photography - 29.5 x 39.4 inch
€10,000
![Painting, Deep inside, Larissa Uvarova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2179299_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Seascape. Sunset 6, Iryna Kastsova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2173094_1_grid.jpg)
Seascape. Sunset 6
Iryna Kastsova
Painting - 80 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
€2,000
![Painting, Ocean. Waves. Light 6., Iryna Kastsova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2172349_1_grid.jpg)
Ocean. Waves. Light 6.
Iryna Kastsova
Painting - 100 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,600
![Painting, Light on water 60., Iryna Kastsova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2166170_1_grid.jpg)
Light on water 60.
Iryna Kastsova
Painting - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,720
![Painting, California. Ocean. Beach 3., Iryna Kastsova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2161736_1_grid.jpg)
California. Ocean. Beach 3.
Iryna Kastsova
Painting - 80 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
€2,000
![Painting, Gentle sunset 9, Iryna Kastsova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2161027_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Evening glare on the water 6., Iryna Kastsova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2160629_1_grid.jpg)
Evening glare on the water 6.
Iryna Kastsova
Painting - 60 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
€1,720
![Painting, Laguna Beach (California) 69., Iryna Kastsova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2159913_1_grid.jpg)
Laguna Beach (California) 69.
Iryna Kastsova
Painting - 80 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
€2,000
![Painting, House. Ocean, Iryna Kastsova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2159508_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Ocean 69., Iryna Kastsova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2159460_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Suzie, Philippe Matine](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2157577_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Ocean 100., Iryna Kastsova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2154487_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Evening Light 6., Iryna Kastsova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2154068_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Beach. Ocean. Palms., Iryna Kastsova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2153066_1_grid.jpg)
Beach. Ocean. Palms.
Iryna Kastsova
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,530
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.