Study of the Sky – (Eugène Louis Boudin) Previous Next


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Size: 46 x 38 cm

Technique: Wood

Charles Baudelaire was the first to note, in 1859, that Eugène Boudin (1824–1898) had in his atelier “hundreds of pastel studies improvised before the sea and the sky”, describing them as “the prodigious magic of air and water”. That same year, fellow artist Gustave Courbet, painting at his side, exclaimed: “My God, you are a seraph, Boudin! You are the only one of us who really knows the sky!

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