{"product_id":"jean-claude-barthel-signed-original-oil-on-the-high-sea-en-pleine-mar","title":"JEAN-CLAUDE BARTHEL Signed Original Oil \"On The High Sea\" (En Pleine Mer)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"item-specifics\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"specs-grid\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"item-description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"description-text\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 20px;\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"color: rgb(44, 44, 44); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArtist:\u003c\/strong\u003e Jean-Claude Barthel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"color: rgb(44, 44, 44); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e \"On The High Sea\" (En Pleine Mer)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"color: rgb(44, 44, 44); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMedium:\u003c\/strong\u003e Oil painting on linen canvas\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"color: rgb(44, 44, 44); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Original, One of a kind\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"color: rgb(44, 44, 44); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArtwork Dimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 81cm x 60cm (32\" x 24\")\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"color: rgb(44, 44, 44); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrame Dimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 85cm x 63cm (33.5\" x 25\")\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15px;\"\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15px;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 15px;\"\u003eImage: Good. Frame: scratches and marks. See photos.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Georgia, serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 15px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eGallery Price: £1160\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr style=\"color: rgb(44, 44, 44); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15px; border-right: none; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 20px 0px;\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;\"\u003eAbout the artwork\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Georgia, serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal;\"\u003eIn On the High Sea, Barthel turns to oil with a confidence that allows the surface to breathe, swell and contract like the sea itself. The medium gives the work a richer, more tactile depth: darker passages gather into weighty, almost geological masses, while lighter strokes glide across them like wind‑struck spray. The blues, blacks and whites intermingle with a slow, deliberate luminosity that only oil can sustain, creating a sense of weather and movement held in delicate balance.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-weight: normal;\"\u003eThe painting sits firmly within Barthel’s ongoing dialogue with elemental landscapes, where representation dissolves into atmosphere. Here, the horizon is suggested rather than drawn, and the viewer is invited into a moment of vastness — a sea that feels both intimate and immense, shaped not by depiction but by sensation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;\"\u003eAbout the Artist\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Georgia, serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal;\"\u003eJean‑Claude Barthel is a contemporary painter known for his atmospheric abstractions and his ability to distil landscape into gesture, colour and mood. Though often associated with maritime and elemental themes, Barthel’s work resists literal depiction; instead, he uses sweeping movement, layered tonalities and a keen sensitivity to light to evoke the emotional architecture of place.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Georgia, serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal;\"\u003eOriginally trained in graphic arts before turning fully to painting, Barthel developed a visual language that balances spontaneity with structural clarity. His surfaces carry the energy of improvisation — broad strokes, shifting textures, and passages of near‑luminosity — yet each composition is anchored by a quiet internal order. This duality gives his paintings their distinctive tension: the sense of nature in flux, held momentarily still.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-weight: normal;\"\u003eBarthel’s practice is deeply rooted in observation, but not in representation. He draws inspiration from coastlines, changing skies, and the rhythm of weather, translating these impressions into works that feel both intimate and expansive. His use of oil, in particular, allows for a depth and resonance that amplifies the emotional weight of his subjects.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-weight: normal;\"\u003eExhibited widely across Europe, Barthel has built a reputation for paintings that invite contemplation — works that do not describe the world so much as breathe with it. 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