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| | Eugene Louis Boudin - Impressions of the Sea - Rehs Galleries, Inc. |
 | | Boudin’s ability to “conserve an attitude of familiarity with nature
without seeking to flatter or embellish it,” gave his audiences the opportunity to be “put in direct contact with her,” (Claude Roger-Marx, Eugène Boudin: 1824-1898, Paris: Les Editions G. Crès and Cie, 1927, pg. |
 | | Boudin firmly believed that “Everything that is painted directly and on the spot always has strength, a power, and a vivacity of touch which one cannot recover in the studio.” (Vivien Hamilton, Boudin at Trouville, ex. |
 | | Boudin’s successes at the Salon and his interactions with Durand-Ruel made the 1880s the moment of large-scale arrival — 1881 was the year that “marked the beginning of an ‘official’ interest in Boudin,” as he recounted in his journal. |
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