Doëlan
Summary
Rural French coastal landscape, painted in thick impasto, showing Tal-Coat's home village of Doëlan-sur-Mer (Clohars-Carnoët), Brittany. A block of dark green in the foreground represents leafy vegetation, pale blue glows from behind the trees representing a bay, behind which lies many small white cottages painted in block colour, each with either a red or a blue roof. The sky is painted in green and blue with visible horizontal paint strokes. The sea is a dark blue horizon line above the village.
Object Name
Doëlan
Creators Name
Date Created
1933
Dimensions
unframed: 49.9cm x 60.8cm
accession number
1952.6
Place of creation
France
Support
canvas on millboard
Medium
oil paint
Legal
©Estate of the Artist/ADAGP
