Maxime MAUFRA

In his monograph on the artist, published in 1926, Arsène Alexandre aptly described Maxime Maufra as ‘a poet of the sea’. The present sheet was drawn at Morgat, a seaside resort on the Bay of Douarnenez, situated on the Crozon Peninsula in northwest Brittany. Maufra is known to have visited Morgat between 1899 and 1902, and painted a number of landscapes of the coast there.