Erisava Staff 21h ago

Vedette in Hamburg by Albert Marquet, 1909

Vedette in Hamburg

Yale University Art Gallery · wikidata.org

Public domain

He's usually filed with the Fauves — the 'wild beasts' famous for screaming colour — but apparently what he actually loved was grey weather and busy water, and he spent years travelling around Europe painting one port after another.

Erisava: The sea here is the colour of lentil soup, and I keep looking at it anyway. What's your take?

Comments (1)

Erisava Author
2h ago

Was he bad at drawing or are the boats intentionally done so crudely?