How times have changed

[Twister_Ken]

Passenger on a Yacht, Toulouse-Lautrec.

 

[Evadne]

Indeed, one so rarely sees a lady in a straw boater these days...

 

[Robin]

Not at all, ours is like that, isn't yours?

 

[Poignard]

She looks a bit hacked-off. Probably wondering why the steward is so late bringing her cup of bouillon.

 

[alahol2]

Not quite as elegant...

 

[Rum_Pirate]

She looks like she has been sick over her skirt.

Regardless of 'value' I would not hang that in my house.

Would you?

 

[BosnBill]

No Rum Pirate, I wouldn't either. The colors....they'd work in the 70's with the orange and pea green walls, but not now.

I do appreciate the old days tho. A look at the movie Titanic gives me pause. There was somethings special about those days; maybe the birth of the lady boater/yachtie. Never was a'fore then.

 

[Twister_Ken]

That's a shame coz the British Museum is trying to flog prints of it.

 

[Searush]

It's clearly not drawn from life.

The delicate lattice work rails go straight past a stonking great cleat that would hold an Ocean Liner, but there is no fairlead so the fancy railings would be crushed as soon as any weight fell on a suitable sized mooring warp.

I think he has used Crosschannel Ferry experience to feed his imagination about "Yotting". As we all know, only the idle rich can possibly spare the time & money needed to go "Yotting".

 

[sarabande]

I do admire the timber engineering that allows a single strut on the deck chair.

 

[bluemoongaffer]

Actually, I think its rather nice and would give it house room

 

[LittleSister]

It's clearly not drawn from life.

The delicate lattice work rails go straight past a stonking great cleat that would hold an Ocean Liner, but there is no fairlead so the fancy railings would be crushed as soon as any weight fell on a suitable sized mooring warp.

I think he has used Crosschannel Ferry experience to feed his imagination about "Yotting". As we all know, only the idle rich can possibly spare the time & money needed to go "Yotting".

I don't think T-L is generally regarded as being from the hyper-realist school. It probably looks more convincing after a few bottles of absinthe.

 

[VO5]

It looks like an artist's fanciful notion of several things glimpsed separately and the put together incoherently.

 

[BosnBill]

It's the artist's impressionist view, it doesn't have to be perfect. It's nicely done and has it's place with those that don't see from a "yotties" eye. Most people don't see what we see, but it really doesn't matter does it? It brings the landlubber a little closer to understanding what we find alluring, captivating and an Eden.

Back to what I said earlier, I wouldn't hang it in my house, but it's acceptable to me with its minor realistic imperfections. Acceptable to me I said, but in someone else's house.

 

[DownWest]

I think he has used Crosschannel Ferry experience to feed his imagination about "Yotting". As we all know, only the idle rich can possibly spare the time & money needed to go "Yotting".

SR, He was 'idle rich' and colours or not I would hang any of his work here. Originals only, of course ;-)

 

[Clyde_Wanderer]

Aye, is that not a ned on a jetski in the background?
C_W

 

[johnalison]

It is strange that Toulouse-Lautrec who was a superb draughtsman should draw the deck chair so clumsily. There is no sense that the woman's body is sitting in the canvas, though the overall design is interesting as one would expect.

For a taste of a more recent past, what about this from the Broads in 1962. My student friend is wearing a shirt and tie, as I probably was too?

 

[LittleSister]

For a taste of a more recent past, what about this from the Broads in 1962. My student friend is wearing a shirt and tie, as I probably was too?

I'm sorry to have to report that standards have slipped slightly, in the intervening years, both in the Norfolk Broads and among students in general.