Low Tide at Pourville

The artwork

Monet wrote that at Pourville no one could be any closer to the sea than he was: he stayed in a small hotel on the pebble beach, with the waves breaking at the foot of the house. You receive it printed on handmade Amalfi paper, in a handmade frame.

• The sea at low tide, the peach-coloured cliff and a cloudless blue sky.
• Pale blues and pinks for a room that calls for calm.
• A gift for anyone who loves the sea and cliffs.

Pourville is a fishing village on the coast of Normandy, near Dieppe. In the spring of 1882 Monet took a room in a small hotel there. He said the village was nothing special, but the landscape won him over: a wide beach, a promenade along the sea and great cliffs.

In this canvas the cliff comes in from the right, its face streaked with peach, cream and yellow and its top covered in grass. The sea has drawn back and fills the lower half of the picture, under a clear sky. On the shore, at the foot of the cliff, there are some thin black strokes: they are bathers. The hotel where Monet stayed looked like the houses you can see on the right, below the cliff. The original is in the Cleveland Museum of Art, in the United States.

In a bathroom, a bedroom or a seaside home it brings the peace of a clear day on the coast. It is a gift for anyone with memories of holidays by the sea.

Unique quality material

Print on handmade Amalfi paper
Sheet size: 29 x 42 cm (11.4 x 16.5 in)
With frame: 31 x 44 cm (12.2 x 17.3 in)
Material: artwork printed on very fine handmade Amalfi paper with deckled edges
Frame: dark brown with gold fillet, handmade, with glass