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Berck, Cloudy Landscape (© Ashmolean Museum)
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© Ashmolean Museum

Berck, Cloudy Landscape

Artist: Eugène Boudin (1824 - 1898)

Location: Ashmolean Museum

Date: 1882

Materials: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 55 x 76 cm

Bequest:

Review number: 3473 (1989)

Provenance:
Hotel Drouot Paris 5/6/1953, lot 17; Mr and Mrs Francis Hock.

Description:
A late sand dune picture, very free and powerful. At the time of acquisition, the Ashmolean only had early sea-side and ferry-boat Boudins. This is the most important work in a collection of 9 works bequeathed to the Ashmolean by the Hocks.

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