Row Boats on the Corniche by Alfred Casile

A beautiful Oil on Panel of Row Boats on the Corniche in Marseille by Alfred Casile.

Born in Marseille in 1848, Casile attended the Ecole des Beaux Arts de Marseille, before moving to Paris in 1879.
After his first submission to the Salon des Artistes Français, he became a pupil of Antoine Guillemet, who introduced him to Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley and Claude Monet, among others.
In 1891, he married a young woman from Brussels and the couple settled in Belgium. Following that move the artist was strongly influenced by the damp, misty atmosphere of Belgian landscapes, and gradually lost the warm tones of Mediterranean light to the grays of the North.

A few years later he returned to Marseille and his paintings brightened up once again, taking on the warmth of the South, but health problems took their toll on him physically, and he was no longer able to roam the seaside and the countryside. He died in Marseille in 1909 at the age of 61.

The painting presented here is from his period as a colorist before he became acquainted with the atmospheres of the North. The colors are intense and pure, exploding under the Mediterranean sun.
The blue of the sea contrasts with the orange hues of the boats and rocks. The power of the colors is reminiscent of those used by the ‘Fauves’ a few years later.
A beautiful, luminous, and well-balanced work by this renowned Provencal artist.

Oil on panel, signed lower right, in a gilded wooden frame.
Perfect condition.

Unframed 6 1/2 X 9 1/2
Framed 15 X 18 1/2

France 19th Century c.Reference number: R-450