Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris

Maurice Laffaille, Raoul Dufy, Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint, Geneva, 1973, vol. II, no. 759, illustrated p. 275

The canvas is lined. There is a small area of retouching in the upper right corner and some small areas of paint thinning in the upper right quadrant with associated specks of retouching. There are further small scattered specks of retouching in the upper area of the sky. Apart from some light craquelure and a few areas of paint thinning with tiny specks of paint loss in the upper part of the sky, this work is in good condition. Colours: Overall fairly accurate, although the blues are brighter and the yellow of the sand is slightly warmer in the original.
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 'Unhappy the man who lives in a climate far from the sea, or unfed by the sparkling waters of a river! [...] The painter needs to be able to see a certain quality of light, a flickering, an airy palpitation bathing what he sees...' Raoul Dufy

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Raoul Dufy in Normandy, circa 1925