Marine. Les Lamaneurs (Seascape. The Mooring men) 1887 It was with this painting that Eugėne Boudin, native of Normandy, obtained a gold medal at the World Fair of 1889, which saw the construction of the Eiffel Tower. The Marmottan Museum, in the West of Paris, is hosting an exhibition of around 80 works by Boudin, mainly oil paintings, with a few water colours and sketches, loaned by a private collector- Yann Guyonvarc'h, now resident in Switzerland. The collector fell in love with a Boudin painting of Deauville beach he saw at the Maastricht art show in 2007. La Plage de Deauville (Deauville Beach) 5 October 1893 Nearly twenty years later, his Boudins number 300. The Commissaire of the exhibition, Laurent Manoeuvre, is a specialist on the artist and has written several books about Boudin's paintings. Boudin found a certain notoriety with his many beach scenes, showing ladies in crinolines enjoying the sea air. However, for the contemporary art market his works were t...