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Albert Marquet
Ebb Tide at Pyla, 1935
Water was an important subject for Marquet who was born near the port city of Bordeaux. He later traveled throughout Europe and North Africa painting views from the waterfront towns of Hamburg, Naples, Algiers, Rotterdam, Venice, and, as pictured here, Pyla-sur-Mer on France's Atlantic coast. Marquet has strikingly captured the effect of the warm light on the surface of the bay as well as the streams running down the beach with the receding tide. |