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Follow the sun’s yellow reflection down the water, then compare its wavering line with the straighter posts beneath the crowded platform.
Dufy’s 1906 view of Sainte-Adresse makes a bathing platform and the sea into a framework of colored lines. Small figures stand along the rail or enter the water, while a bright reflection stretches down from the sun. The simplified bodies and loosely painted supports emphasize the activity of the place without describing every detail.
Oil on canvas · 65 × 81 cm · SMK — National Gallery of Denmark · Fauvism
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Details and source
- Museum title
- Solglimt på havet ved Sainte-Adresse
- Artist
- Raoul Dufy
- Date
- 1906
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 65 × 81 cm
- Credit line
- SMK — National Gallery of Denmark, KMSr40
- Image license
- Public Domain Mark 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- SMK — National Gallery of Denmark
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.