Fishing boats on the Beach at Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, 1888 by Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890, Netherlands) | Museum Quality Copies Vincent Van Gogh | WahooArt.com

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"Fishing boats on the Beach at Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer"

Vincent Van Gogh - Oil On Canvas - 65 x 82 cm - 1888 - (Van Gogh Museum (Netherlands))
Arles was not far from the Mediterranean. At the beginning of June 1888 Vincent visited the fishing village of Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer where, in a matter of days, he produced two seascapes, a view of the village and nine drawings. He wrote to Theo about one of the seascapes: “I made the drawing of the boats when I left very early in the morning, and I am now working on a painting based on it, a size 30 canvas with more sea and sky on the right. It was before the boats hastened out
I had watched them every morning, but as they leave very early I didn’t have time to paint them.”