Guarisco Gallery 2012

109 Henri Le Sidaner French, 1862-1939 Boats in the Moonlight, Tréport signed, oil and pastel on canvas 21-1/4” x 28-3/4” 33-1/4” x 41” fr. oncurrent with the widely influential style of Impressionism was the related exploration of shading termed tonalism . Artists such as James McNeill Whistler sought to experiment with the representative qualities of one color, carefully modulating delicate ranges of shades to communicate emotion. Works in this style were typically very atmospheric, often mysterious in quality, and descended from the French Barbizon style which emphasized mood and shadow. Henri Le Sidaner’s Boats in the Moonlight, Tréport is a wonderful example of the tonalist interest in poetic land and seascapes in a misty moonlight. In subtle shades of a dark blue-green, his atmospheric work captures the soft shape of ships under the diffuse light of the moon. C