20th Century Gouache – Harbour Scene With Boats At Dock – Germaine Balthazard-bernard (1883-197

A fine original gouache depicting a harbour scene with fishing boats and sailing vessels moored at a quay, village houses visible in the background beneath a cloudy sky rendered in soft blue and grey tones. The dark reflections of the hulls in the still water lend the composition an intimate and poetic atmosphere, characteristic of early 20th-century French marine painting. The brushwork is free and expressive, the palette carefully harmonised.

Signed lower left G. Balthazard Bernard.
Frame: 43x52 cm
Artwork: 21.5x29.5 cm

Germaine Balthazard-Bernard (Paris, 1883–1977) was a pupil of Jean-Paul Laurens, Henri Montassier, and the Académie Julian. She exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français in Paris between 1934 and 1939, of which she became a member. She is known for her landscapes, marine scenes and genre paintings, as well as her woodcut prints depicting life in French West Africa (circa 1931).