{"id":84395,"date":"2021-09-02T18:14:09","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T16:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/svetslik.si\/uncategorized\/boats-low-tide-grandcamp\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T16:52:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T14:52:57","slug":"boats-low-tide-grandcamp","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/svetslik.si\/en\/georges-seurat\/boats-low-tide-grandcamp\/","title":{"rendered":"Georges Seurat \u2013 Boats, Low Tide, Grandcamp"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boats, Low Tide, Grandcamp \u2013 a hand-painted reproduction of Seurat\u2019s painting<\/h2>\n

Boats, Low Tide is one of the marines Seurat painted at Grandcamp on the Normandy coast in the summer of 1885, and among our paintings on canvas<\/strong> it is one of the lightest: boats resting on the sand, waiting for the sea to come back. Ours is made as a hand-painted painting, oil on canvas.<\/p>\n

What is on the canvas<\/h3>\n

At low tide the boats settle on the bottom and lean over, their masts pointing in different directions. Behind them the wet sand reflects the sky and the waterline runs away almost horizontally. The colour is very pale \u2014 pink sand, weak blues, the faintest greens \u2014 with a few dark accents in the hulls. There is not a single figure. It is a picture about emptiness and waiting, not about the work of fishermen.<\/p>\n

The summer at Grandcamp<\/h3>\n

In the summer of 1885 Seurat left Paris for the Normandy coast and painted a series of marines at Grandcamp. They were begun in front of the motif and finished in the studio, and they show the moment his dotted technique moved from figures to landscape: here the dots hold together a diffuse light with no hard shadows. The series does not tell one story \u2014 it is the same stretch of coast under different conditions, with related choices of composition.<\/p>\n

A note on the original<\/h3>\n

The original is oil on canvas, painted in 1885 at Grandcamp in Normandy. We state width first and then height, and the table below gives the measurements in that order. The place is Grandcamp on the Calvados coast \u2014 a small fishing harbour where the sea withdraws a long way and leaves the bay dry twice a day.<\/p>\n

What you receive<\/h3>\n

The painting is made by our painter by hand, oil on canvas, in the size you choose, and to your own measurements if you prefer. It is a pale, restful picture, which suits a wall that gets little daylight, a bedroom, or a large bathroom. The soft tones are easy to place and do not impose a colour on the room. When the canvas is finished we photograph it and send you the picture for approval before it leaves the studio. You choose the frame in our 3D application. Every artwork we sell is hand-painted and never printed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/colgroup>\n<\/table>\n

The sea is a large part of Seurat\u2019s work. This shelf also carries the harbour at Port-en-Bessin and the channel at Gravelines, painted on the same coast in the years that followed.<\/p>\n

Year of creation:<\/td>\n1885<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Original size:<\/td>\n80.3 cm x 64.4 cm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Painting style:<\/td>\nPointillism<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Original technique:<\/td>\nOil on canvas<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Located:<\/td>\nLafevre Gallery, London<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n