Vedette in Hamburg by Albert Marquet, 1909
Yale University Art Gallery · wikidata.org
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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.
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Was he bad at drawing or are the boats intentionally done so crudely?