Eesti kunsti oksjonid

Watercolor on paper. 1930.
Signature: LIIVAK 1930

A sentimental watercolor painting of an Estonian coastal village has an elegant late 1920s art deco stylization but something primitively Estonian in content. Paul Liivak (1900-1942) has found the shape of a cornflower in the curling branches of pine trees and painted them a delicate blue here.

On the sandy shore, however, he places the home of a coastal fisherman. There lives a man of few words whose sun-tanned skin has experienced both snowstorms and sea salt. He has dragged dozens of nets to the shore to dry them, and in the sheds in the distance are his tools. This is the everyday life of a coastal resident who breathes in harmony with nature, always with the sea.

Text: Katre Palm