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Compare the white and violet touches in the sand with the warmer marks on the rocks, then notice how the children interrupt those broad areas of color.
Cross moved to Cabasson on the Mediterranean coast in 1891 and increasingly worked with separate touches of color. Here small dabs build a pale beach, blue sea, and warm rocks around three children. The systematic marks do not remove the sensation of bright light; they are the means through which he constructs it.
Oil on canvas · 65.3 × 92.3 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Post-Impressionism · Neo-Impressionism
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- Museum title
- Beach at Cabasson (Baigne-Cul)
- Artist
- Henri Edmond Cross (French, 1856–1910)
- Date
- 1891–92
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 65.3 × 92.3 cm (25 3/4 × 36 3/8 in.); Framed: 82.6 × 108.6 × 6.4 cm (32 1/2 × 42 3/4 × 2 1/2 in.)
- Credit line
- L. L. and A. S. Coburn, and Bette and Neison Harris funds; Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection; through prior acquisition of the Kate L. Brewster Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.