Port, 2012
Painting : oil · 81 x 120 x 2 cm 31.9 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch · Ready to hang
€5,900
5 900 €
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Painting : Unique artwork
Condition
Artwork sold in perfect condition, framed, ready to hang
with stretcher frame
Authenticity
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Signature
Hand-signed by artist
Dimensions ( cm • inch )
81 x 120 x 2 cm 31.9 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch Height x Width x Depth
Artwork dimensions including frame
94 x 134 x 5 cm 37 x 52.8 x 2 inch
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Description
This painting feels like stepping onto a bustling harbor just as the evening fog rolls in. The artist doesn't bother with sharp outlines of ships, cranes, or docks. Instead, he invites us to experience the seaport through raw atmosphere, movement, and mood.
At first glance, your eyes wander through a hazy veil of smoky grays, earthy ochres, and muted browns. It captures that damp, industrial air unique to working waterfronts, where sea mist mingles with the smoke of departing vessels.
Yet just as the scene threatens to dissolve into gloom, the canvas erupts with life. Energetic slashes of bright canary yellow, fiery red, and electric blue cut through the haze like harbor beacons, container lights, and shifting reflections dancing across dark water.
There is an incredible sense of rhythm here. Smilingis-Elis builds the composition with urgent, layered gestures—some areas are smudged softly like sea spray, while others are scratched and built up with thick, physical paint. You can almost hear the low hum of boat engines, the clatter of loading docks, and the rhythmic lap of the tide.
Rather than simply showing what a harbor looks like, Smilingis-Elis captures how it feels to be there: chaotic, luminous, and endlessly alive. It is a work that asks you to linger, pull back the mist with your own imagination, and discover the hidden life vibrating beneath the surface.
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Aloyzas Smilingis (Elis) was born in a village and had no relation to professional art in his childhood, although his artistic abilities appeared at an early age. He saw his first painting at the age of seventeen and was so impressed that he decided to become an artist. Elis entered Vilnius Institute of Art without any prior preparation where he have studied graphics. He quitted graphics straight after the graduation as well as he quitted with the current socialist methods, so the artist was not welcome at the exhibitions and did not have so many commissions. Elis was interested in painting and sculpture. He started working with granite, established a bronze foundry for sculptures. Every time when he got tired from sculpture, he took the brush in his hands and created paintings. "Artistic ideas are more important than dependence on some workshop of faithfulness to one genre or style. I am not keen on reproducing myself. My thinking is changing and so does my art. I remain self-critical and walk on", said Elis. After the collapse of the Soviet Union painter and sculptor had a chance to visit the West and get acquainted with the collections in best museums of New York, Amsterdam, London and meet famous artists. This had a great effect on his esthetical views. Meeting Willem de Kooning was the most impressive event in Elis career. He visited his studio in East Hampton, NY, where they shared ideas and artistic views. "I understood that the value of art does not depend on the number of exhibitions, nor prestigious projects, critics or curators. It is not my problem where my piece will be hanging and who will be showing it in some exhibition after a hundred years. That is why I don't go out in the public and don't waste my energy preparing for shows and projects. People who are interested in my art find me and sometimes take away the works that are difficult to let go", says Elis, who calls himself a free artist. In his seventies, to the surprise of his family, Elis mastered digital technology and started creating impressive digital abstractions. Artist resides and works in Lithuania, his art is owned by several Lithuanian museums and belongs to private collectors in Australia, Italy, USA, UK, Denmark, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Lithuania and Japan.
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