"A Dutch yacht and other shipping at sea in a stiff breeze"

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This is a superb example of Louis Dodd's peerless painting technique, an oil on panel that celebrates and rivals the great Dutch seventeenth century marine artistsrevered by Dodd.

A beautiful yacht runs before the rising wind towards a fleet of Dutch warships and attendant craft. The yacht's stern is highly ornate, rendered in the extraordinary detailof whichonly Dodd of twentieth century marine artists was capable, and signifies the status of her owner, presumably an admiral, rich captain or visiting grandee.

The detail extends to all parts of the painting and is made possible by Dodd's technique of painting on smooth grounds of chalk covered with gesso laid onto beautiful mahogany or hardwood panels. Dodd built up glazes of thin oil paint, one on top of the other,to achieve his luminous cloud and light effects, in the case of this painting producing the infinitely subtle greys, blues and pale greens of Dutch waters and skies.

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