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Eugène Boudin grew up in Honfleur and spent his life at the edge of the Channel. He painted beaches at Trouville and Deauville, fishing boats on the Touques, and skies that take up two thirds of the canvas. Corot called him the king of skies. Monet learned to work outdoors at his side. The collection brings salt light and open weather to a wall, quiet even when the beach is full.
Eugène Boudin (1824-1898) was born in Honfleur, the son of a harbour pilot, and painted the Normandy coast for fifty years. He worked outdoors before that was common practice, and talked the teenage Monet into doing the same. Corot called him the king of skies. Boudin's beach scenes at Trouville and Deauville record the new fashion for sea bathing. Crinolines on the sand, parasols, a band of grey water, and above it an enormous sky.
The range runs along the coast Boudin knew. There are beach parties at Deauville and Dieppe, shipping on the Touques, harbour views from Dordrecht, and sunsets where the whole picture is weather. A handful of Venice studies and portraits round it out. The skies carry these pictures: pale, moving, full of grey and rose. Prints come in sizes from a small study to a wide seascape.
Boudin suits rooms that want air. A wide seascape above a bed or a long sofa opens the wall, and the low horizon keeps the eye level. In a bathroom, or a bedroom painted white, the cool greys hold up well against tile and plaster. Hang two beach scenes side by side and the skies read as one continuous stretch of weather. Pale oak frames and off-white mounts flatter them.
Every artwork here is an archival print, hand-framed to order and delivered ready to hang — made in India.
Wall Art
by Eugene Boudin
