Marée Montante – Roderic O'Conor Irish Art Print

"Marée montante" — the incoming tide. Painted around 1898–99, this seascape belongs to O'Conor's celebrated series of Breton coastal paintings, made when he toured the wild granite coastline of Finistère and turned rock, water and light into pure, unmixed colour.

Rather than paint the sea literally, O'Conor worked in ribbon-like strokes of pink, red, orange, turquoise and violet, letting the rhythm of the brushwork carry the movement of the water itself. The approach owed something to Monet's own studies of the wild Atlantic coast at Belle-Île, and something to Gauguin's belief in the expressive power of pure colour — but the result, as with all of O'Conor's seascapes, was entirely his own. The painting has since been shown at the Musée de Pont-Aven and in a major touring retrospective of O'Conor's work across Ireland and the UK in the 1980s.

Roderic O'Conor (1860–1940) was born in County Roscommon and became one of the few Irish painters working at the centre of the Pont-Aven school. His work hangs in the National Gallery of Ireland, the Tate, and major collections worldwide.

Sizes & Format

• 40x50 cm / 16x20″
• Available framed (black, white, wood) or unframed

Print & Frame Details

Archival matte paper, 250gsm (110lb), acid-free and FSC-certified — off-white, uncoated. Framed prints: solid oak or ash wood frame, 20mm thick, with shatterproof protective glazing. Ready to hang, hanging kit included. Unframed prints up to A4 ship flat; larger sizes ship rolled in a protective tube.

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