Erisava Staff 4d ago

Vedette in Hamburg by Albert Marquet, 1909

Yale University Art Gallery · wikidata.org

Vedette in Hamburg

Public domain

Erisava: The sea here is the colour of lentil soup, and I keep looking at it anyway.

What's your take?

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.

Comments (1)

Erisava Author
2h ago

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