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Marie Charles - Boat Aground At Low Tide - Oil On Canvas - Signed And Dated 1900
Marie CHARLES
Boat aground at low tide
Oil on canvas, keyed frame
46 × 32 cm (canvas) - 53.5 × 40.5 cm (framed)
Signed and dated lower left: Marie Charles / 1900
Vintage gilded stuccoed wood frame, some gilding missing
Very good condition
In the foreground, a two-masted fishing boat has run aground on the sand at low tide, its dark hull leaning over its side, its ropes hanging limply in the gray air. The composition is daring: the boat occupies the center of the canvas in a plunging, almost frontal view, carving out its black mass against a uniformly overcast sky rolling with heavy gray-white clouds. To the left, a few silhouettes of boats can be made out in the distance; to the right, two figures - one woman in red, the other in black - observe the scene from the beach, in front of dunes greened by short grass. Seagulls circle high in the sky.
The palette, narrowed around grays, beiges and browns, is lifted by a single bright red note that immediately catches the eye. The brushstrokes are free and light, particularly sensitive in the treatment of the sky and the reflections on the wet sand. The whole shows a solid mastery of plein-air marine painting, in the tradition of the many painters who frequented the Channel and North Sea coasts - Étaples, Berck, Katwijk or Scheveningen - around 1900.
Marie Charles remains to this day unlisted in the dictionaries of artists consulted. Nevertheless, this signed and dated marine is an undeniable testimony of quality to the practice of plein air painting by women artists at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Boat aground at low tide
Oil on canvas, keyed frame
46 × 32 cm (canvas) - 53.5 × 40.5 cm (framed)
Signed and dated lower left: Marie Charles / 1900
Vintage gilded stuccoed wood frame, some gilding missing
Very good condition
In the foreground, a two-masted fishing boat has run aground on the sand at low tide, its dark hull leaning over its side, its ropes hanging limply in the gray air. The composition is daring: the boat occupies the center of the canvas in a plunging, almost frontal view, carving out its black mass against a uniformly overcast sky rolling with heavy gray-white clouds. To the left, a few silhouettes of boats can be made out in the distance; to the right, two figures - one woman in red, the other in black - observe the scene from the beach, in front of dunes greened by short grass. Seagulls circle high in the sky.
The palette, narrowed around grays, beiges and browns, is lifted by a single bright red note that immediately catches the eye. The brushstrokes are free and light, particularly sensitive in the treatment of the sky and the reflections on the wet sand. The whole shows a solid mastery of plein-air marine painting, in the tradition of the many painters who frequented the Channel and North Sea coasts - Étaples, Berck, Katwijk or Scheveningen - around 1900.
Marie Charles remains to this day unlisted in the dictionaries of artists consulted. Nevertheless, this signed and dated marine is an undeniable testimony of quality to the practice of plein air painting by women artists at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
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