Word: honfleur
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first & foremost a great painter-a master of complex composition (the receding planes in La Grande Jatte are extraordinary) and an inspired colorist. He produced only seven large, major canvases, but his hundreds of drawings and oil sketches are rarities in themselves, and his calm vacation seascapes painted at Honfleur and Grandcamp are among the finest chapters in the painted literature of the ocean...
...greenery, the river flows past the village of Villequier, once the home of Victor Hugo, begins to turn salty near Quillebeuf, painted by the seascapist Boudin. The exhibition, with six splendid Boudins including a glimpse of the beach at Trouville, ends with Corot's serene view of seaside Honfleur...