01 Marine Painting - Charles Henry Fromuth's Storm Sailing, With Footnotes, #323

Charles Henry Fromuth, American, 1858-1937

Storm Sailing, Concarneau, c. 1925-27

Pastel on paper laid down on board

18 x 29 1/2 inches (45.7 x 75 cm)

Private collection

Sold for $3,000 USD in Jun 2022

Concarneau is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France.

The town has two distinct areas: the modern town on the mainland and the medieval Ville Close, a walled town on a long island in the centre of the harbour. Historically, the old town was a centre of shipbuilding, and its ramparts date from the 14th century. More on Concarneau

Charles Fromuth is an American painter born in 1866 in Philadelphia and died in 1937 at Concarneau. Charles Fromuth learned painting at the School of Fine Arts in Philadelphia under the direction of Thomas Eakins ; he discovers Europe and Paris in 1889. With the exception of a trip to the United States in 1910, he spent the rest of his life in Concarneau residing at the Hotel de France in this sardine port.



At the Universal Exhibition of 1900 , he discovered Japanese art, particularly Hokusai. Fromuth had the same view of nature that the Japanese, he worshiped the sea in all its forms. All his work is devoted to the craft of animation in the main port of Concarneau. "The movement is the thrust of my work," wrote Fromuth. He exhibited regularly in Europe, earning various awards and medals, until 1910. After that date, he devoted himself entirely to his hermit pastels and charcoal drawings depicting fleeing boats under sail. More on Charles Fromuth

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