
La plage de Deauville
1955
A vibrant portrayal of the beach at Deauville by the Fauvist master van Dongen, with characteristic bold colors and loose brushwork. This 1955 work captures the leisure and vitality of a coastal resort.
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Location
- Sotheby's, New York, NY
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Sotheby'sView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Modern & Contemporary Day Auction
March 3, 2022
Estimate: $200,000 to $300,000
Lot 290
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Artists in conversation

Raoul Dufy
French · b. 1877

Dufy painted the same Normandy coastal resorts including Deauville with similarly vibrant colors, loose brushwork and a joyful celebration of leisure and seaside life that closely mirrors van Dongen's approach in this work.

Henri Matisse
French · b. 1869

As a fellow Fauvist master, Matisse shared van Dongen's commitment to bold expressive color and gestural brushwork in capturing sun drenched coastal scenes, making his beach and Mediterranean paintings highly comparable to this Deauville piece.

Albert Marquet
French · b. 1875

Marquet painted numerous French beach and harbor scenes with loose oil brushwork and a vibrant yet airy palette rooted in Post Impressionist and Fauvist traditions, closely paralleling the coastal leisure subject matter and painterly technique seen in this Deauville work.
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