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ROGER CHAPELET | Pali di Casada
£3,950.00Price
Gouache
48.9 x 63 cms / 19 ¼ x 24 ¾ inches
Roger Chapalet's Pali di Casada is a masterful exploration of form and atmosphere, capturing the rugged beauty of an old Venetian dock. Through a delicate interplay of light and shadow, Chapalet renders the weathered wooden pilings as sentinels of time, standing resolute against the gentle lapping of the lagoon's waters.
Muted blues, soft grays, and earthy browns create a meditative palette, while the reflection of the pilings dances with an ethereal quality, blurring the line between reality and memory. With Pali di Casada, Chapalet transforms a simple maritime scene into a profound meditation on stillness, endurance, and the passage of time.
- Rogert Chapelet was one of the three great French maritime painters of the twentieth-century, alongside Marin-Marie Paul Emmanuel Durand Couppel de Saint-Front and Albert Brenet. He became the official painter for the French Navy from 1936 until his death in 1995. He sailed in every sea in the world including the coastal waters of Greenland and Newfoundland. He recorded the Second World War, the North Sea and North Atlantic Convoys, the French-Algerian War and the Indo-China War and from all of these he has brought back a record that will ultimately prove to be of great historical value. His knowledge of ships is unequalled and his colouring is exact. In 1960, Chapelet was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour. He has also been awarded the positions of Chancellor of the Cap Hornier, Chevalier des Palmes Academique and Officer of the order of Maritime Merit.
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