Fishing Boats on the Beach

Vincent Van Gogh has produced all of his works, which included 864 paintings and 1,200 drawings and prints, within a decade. Van Gogh has done most of his paintings outdoors and had a special talent for capturing the subtleties of nighttime light and shadow. Van Gogh has sold only one painting, composed in his more than a decade artistic career, in his lifetime and has endured as one of the last century's most influential artists. Fishing Boats on the Beach is done with high-quality art print process and expertly captures the vivid color and exceptional detail of the original. Vincent Van Gogh visited the fishing village of Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer around June 1888, and, in a very short span of couple of days, worked on two compositions exhibiting the seascapes and Fishing Boats on the Beach is one of them. Van Gogh wrote to his younger brother Theo about one of the seascapes:"I made the drawing of the boats when I left very early in the morning, and I am now working on a painting based on it, a size 30 canvas with more sea and sky on the right. It was before the boats hastened out; I had watched them every morning, but as they leave very early I didn't have time to paint them."