01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #186

Moses Kisling (1891 - 1953)

Port of Saint Tropez, c. 1916 

Oil on canvas 

50.2 x 40.5 cm

Private collection

Saint-Tropez is a town on the French Riviera, 100 kilometres (62 miles) west of Nice in the Var department of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of southeastern France.


Saint-Tropez was a military stronghold and fishing village until the beginning of the 20th century. It was the first town on this coast to be liberated during World War II as part of Operation Dragoon. After the war, it became an internationally known seaside resort, renowned principally because of the influx of artists of the French New Wave in cinema and the Yé-yé movement in music. It later became a resort for the European and American jet set and tourists. More on Saint-Tropez 

Moïse Kisling, (January 22, 1891 – April 29, 1953), was a Polish-born French painter. He moved to Paris in 1910 at the age of 19, and became a French citizen in 1915, after serving and being wounded with the French Foreign Legion in World War I. He emigrated to the United States in 1940, after the fall of France, and returned there in 1946. 

Born in Kraków, Austria-Hungary, he studied at the School of Fine Arts in Kraków. His teachers encouraged the young man to go to Paris, France, considered the international center for artistic creativity in the early 20th century.

A large collection of Kisling's works is held by the Musée du Petit Palais in Geneva, Switzerland. More on Moïse Kisling

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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #104

Hans Bohrdt, (11 February 1857 – 19 December 1945)

Wilhelm Gustloff in the Port of Hamburg, c. 1939

Oil on canvas

80 x 120 cm

Private collection

MV Wilhelm Gustloff was a German cruise ship transformed into a military transport ship. She was sunk on 30 January 1945 by Soviet submarine S-13 in the Baltic Sea, while evacuating German civilians, officials, and military personnel from Gdynia (Gotenhafen) as the Red Army advanced. By one estimate, 9,400 people died, which makes it the largest loss of life in a single ship sinking in history.

Constructed as a cruise ship for the Nazi Kraft durch Freude (Strength Through Joy) organisation in 1937, she had been requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine (German navy) in 1939. She served as a hospital ship in 1939 and 1940. She was then assigned as a floating barracks for naval personnel in Gdynia (Gotenhafen) before being put into service to transport evacuees in 1945. More on MV Wilhelm Gustloff

The Port of Hamburg, is a sea port on the river Elbe in Hamburg, Germany, 110 kilometres from its mouth on the North Sea.

It's Germany's largest port and is named the country's "Gateway to the World". Hamburg is the second-busiest port in Europe (after Rotterdam) and 15th-largest worldwide. 

The harbour is location is naturally advantaged by a branching Elbe, creating an ideal place for a port complex with warehousing and transshipment facilities. More on The Port of Hamburg

Hans Bohrdt (11 February 1857 – 19 December 1945) was a German artist. He was a self-taught painter who would later go on to give private lessons to Kaiser Wilhelm II. German Kaiser Wilhelm II took a liking to Bohrdt and would fund all of his projects, which were often nationalistic in nature. In 1915 Bohrdt created his most famous illustration which is called "The Last Man". The image shows a German navy officer holding up a German flag as his ship sinks because he would rather go down with the ship than surrender. "The Last Man" would become one of the most widely recognized propaganda images used during the war to inspire courage. Bohrdt was accepted into the Imperial Yacht Club in Kiel. In 1906 the Kaiser granted Bohrdt a spacious villa in Berlin. After World War I, Bohrdt made a living drawing maritime postcards, book illustrations, magazines, and supplied images for newspaper articles. More on Hans Bohrdt 

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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #100

Margarita Kukhtina, Canada

Harbor Port Credit

Oil on Canvas

48 H x 32 W x 1 in

Private collection

Port Credit was originally a settlement of the Mississauga Ojibwe First Nations band and a trading post established in 1720 for the exchange of goods from the Europeans for furs trapped by the Mississaugas. After the War of 1812, a harbour was established by the Mississaugas together with European settlers. In 1847, the Mississaugas left the village to relocate on the Six Nations Reserve to be with other band members and first nations. Industry was established on the village periphery including an oil refinery, but the village is no longer a substantial industrial district. The village survived into the 20th century, becoming an independent municipality in 1909, until it was merged with the City of Mississauga in 1974.

Today, the original core village is now a heritage conservation district. The harbour is mostly used for recreational boating. More on Port Credit

Margarita Kukhtina was born in Kursk, Russia. From an early age, she displayed her artistic talent by painting at her teacher's studio who was a master of the Old Russian academic style in Beaux Arts. In 1984, she was accepted to the prestigious Kharkov Art Industrial Institute, and upon graduating was invited to join the staff of Orel College of Fine Arts. Since 1995 to 2002 she was the main creator of the great collection of pictures (over 120 enormous oil paintings) located at theme parks: "King's City" and "The Bible Museum in Israel". In 2002, she immigrated to Canada, where she resumed work in the Fine Arts department. Margarita's work is held in private collections spanning over Israel, Germany, the US and Canada. More on Margarita Kukhtina

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02 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - by Edward Seago, With Footnotes, #87

Edward Seago, RWS (British, 1910-1974)

The Barquentine Gazela at Cacilhas Portugal 

Oil on canvas

63.5 x 76.2cm (25 x 30in).

Private collection

A barquentine or schooner barque is a sailing vessel with three or more masts; with a square rigged foremast and fore-and-aft rigged main, mizzen and any other masts. More on the barquentine

Gazela is a wooden tall ship, built in 1901, whose home port is Philadelphia. She was built as a commercial fishing vessel, and used in that capacity for more than sixty years. She now serves as the maritime goodwill ambassador for the City of Philadelphia, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the Ports of Philadelphia and Camden, New Jersey. She has been featured in a number of films, and participated in domestic and international events. More on the Gazela

Cacilhas is a former civil parish in the municipality of Almada, in Lisbon. Cacilhas is situated on the south bank of the river Tagus facing the city of Lisbon. More on Cacilhas

Edward Seago, RWS (British, 1910-1974)

The Barquentine Gazela on the Tagus 

Oil on canvas

50.8 x 76.2cm (20 x 30in)

Private collection

The Tagus is the longest river in the Iberian Peninsula along the border between Portugal and Spain, where it empties into the Atlantic Ocean near Lisbon. The Tagus is highly utilized for most of its course. At its mouth is a large estuary on which the port city of Lisbon is situated. More on The Tagus

Edward Brian Seago, 1910–1974; was a British painter, writer, and illustrator, born in Norwich. He was confined to bed for much of his childhood, had little formal education, and was mainly self-taught as an artist. From 1928 to 1933 he travelled with circuses in Britain and abroad, and he wrote three illustrated books on the circus in the 1930s. However, he became best known for landscapes and portraits.

During the Second World War he served as a camouflage officer and after being invalided from the army in 1944 he was invited by Field Marshal Alexander to paint scenes of the Italian campaign in 1945. In 1953 he was appointed an official Coronation artist and in 1956–7 he accompanied the Duke of Edinburgh on a world tour.  More on Edward Seago

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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #77

Andres Vivo, Uruguay

Ketch and Yawls

Oil on Paper

8.5 H x 11.8 W x 0 in

Private collection

A yawl is a two-masted sailing craft whose mainmast is taller than the mizzen mast (or aft-mast). Compared to a similar sized ketch, a yawl's mizzen mast is set further aft and its mizzen sail is smaller.


Historically, the yawl was a commercial working vessel, but today, the yawl is a fore-and-aft rigged pleasure yacht. In Europe yawls are much less common than the more popular ketch. More on the yawl

Andres Vivo: "Painting the sea and sky provides me with the perfect excuse to express myself in my love of color and bold strokes. The abstract aspect of my paintings enables me to experiment and get lost in the imagery it evokes, while allowing the viewer to interpret the work through their own feelings and emotions. There is nothing shy about the sea nor in my work!", says the artist. Having honed his craft for more than 30 years, Vivo's body of work encompasses various themes, from realistic and semi-abstract landscapes, seascapes and beaches, to abstract human forms and shapes. His preferred technique is oil on canvas or board using palette knives and brushes, with bold strokes and colors. For many years, he held the position of Director of The Painters & Sculptors Association of Uruguay. Vivo currently heads his own atelier, located in Montevideo, where he teaches art and exhibits his paintings. His work is included in private and corporate collections worldwide. He has been awarded several prizes at art contests for paintings, drawings and installations. He has illustrated books and book covers. More on Andres Vivo

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