Artistic symphony of the beach and swimming.

“Diving into summer”, illustration by Soléne Debiés

Léonard Beaumont, “Sunbathing”, 1932.

Four watercolors by Sir William Russell Flint (Scottish artist, 1880-1969) that can be admired for their subtlety. The artist also worked in oil, tempera and graphic techniques.

Darrel Rhea

“Two Ladies at the Beach”, Isaac Lazare Israëls, Dutch painter (1865-1934)

Laurent Durieux, cinema poster designer

“Beach walk”, Timothy Easton (born in 1943), English painter

Sonia Delaunay‘s daring use of colors and patterns for 1920s beachwear.

Salvador Dali, “Rêves sur la plage”, 1934

“Woman with an ombrella”, 1895, Aristide Maillol, sculptor

Francis Picabia, “Coup de soleil, nu au maillot – Camassade”, 1942.

A stunning artist, first of all, around 1905, he was a successful Impressionist, always not hesitating to question his art.

In 1908, he met Gabriële Buffet (Claire Berest’s sublime biography “Gabriële” is a must-read). Close to the Dadaist movement, she encouraged him to pursue recent research, particularly in photography.

Then, the most surreal of them all, both in his work and in his life, innovated again, stepping out of his territory, out of his comfort zone.

As early as 1940, Picabia posed as a precursor of the American pop art of the 1960s, as in this 1942 painting based on magazine photographs.

Sylvie Vartan on the beach

Jacques-Henri Lartigue, “Chou Valton at La Garoupe beach in Cap d’Antibes, 1932.”

La Garoupe was (yes it is no longer) a sandy spot not far from the tip of Cap d’Antibes, the sand so fine, a gentle slope to enter the water, a sublime view of the Alps.

It was here, in the early 1960s, that the people of Saint-Paul, even if it meant going down “to the sea”, avoided the pebbles of Cagnes or Villeneuve-Loubet. It was still a protected and little-known area.

Photo by John Rawlings for Vogue

Perfection in photography, Louise Dahl-Wolfe (American, 1895-1989)
“Twins at the Beach”, for Harper’s Bazaar, 1949.

Maurice Denis, “Little boy’s beach”, 1911

“Veruschka on the beach in a feathered bikini”, Franco Rubartelli for Vogue, may 1966

Max Beckmann, “Blue sea with beach chairs”, 1938, Amsterdam, oil on canvas, 60 x 80 cm

Jantzen Swimwear,1958, René Gruau

The divers by Virginie Morgand.

After working in cartooning in Paris, Virginie Morgand gradually developed a taste for illustration, graphic design and screen printing.
Her visual language is characterized by simple shapes, bright colors and strong lines.

She now illustrates for the press, advertising and children’s publishing.

Benjamin Senior, “blue swimming pool”, 2016

Kirsten Ulve, graphic artist from New-York

“Children in the Sea”, 1909, Joaquín Sorolla (born February 27, 1863 in Valencia, Spain – died August 10, 1923 in Cercedilla) was a Spanish painter whose style was a variant of Impressionism, and whose best works, painted en plein air, vividly depict the sunny Valencian coastline.

“Girl in orange dress, reading by a pool”, 1922, by Irish portrait painter John Lavery. Along with William Orpen, he is one of the great British artists who witnessed the First World War.

Roméo Dumoulin, (1883-1944), “Starfish”

“Bathers on Hornbæk Beach”,1900, oil on canvas by Paul Fischer, a Danish painter known for his naturalistic depictions of urban life in Scandinavia and Europe. He was trained in the material aspects of painting by his father, owner of a paint manufacturing business and himself an amateur artist. Fischer was also known for his painted scenes of nude bathers on the beach, inspired by his travels to Paris, where he saw the erotic posters of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and the sensual ballet paintings of Edgar Degas. Born on July 22, 1860 in Copenhagen, Denmark, he attended the Royal Danish Academy of Arts in Copenhagen and remained in his homeland all his life. Fischer died on May 1, 1934 in Gentofte, Denmark.

“Swimming 2” by Nelson Kenton, contemporary artist, acrylic on canvas

Félix Vallotton, “Baigneuse rose”, 1893.

Félix Vallotton, born in Lausanne on December 28, 1865 and died in Neuilly-sur-Seine on December 29, 1925, was a Franco-Swiss painter, engraver, illustrator, sculptor, art critic and novelist.

David Hockney, “Pool and Steps” 1971

Lucia Sarto, Italian painter, born in Udine, north-east Italy, in 1950.
At the age of just 11, she won her first painting prize in a regional school competition. She studied painting in Venice with the well-known artist Tutor V.Guidi.
He was a great influence on her work as a portrait painter.
Lucie moved to Turin, a center of Italian art and culture, and soon established herself as an artist in her own right, finding a market for her work.

Her canvases emanate a softness and freshness that really appeals to me!
Her canvases are warm, luminous and take you gently to Italy…
Her reputation is well established in Europe and the rest of the world!

A lone sprinter races along Saint-Vincent, National Géographique, December,1965

“Swimming pool” by Virginie Morgand

“Diving” by Koshiro Onchi, 1932

Elvis Presley and Joan Blackman at Hawaï, 1961

Photo by Clifford Coffin for Vogue, 1950

“Crane Neck Across the Marsh”, 1841. by William Sidney Mount, who excelled in the art of landscape painting, but would not be associated with the Hudson River School. He painted the daily life of Long Island farmers, inspired by English genre paintings. Mount also painted the black community, which he always portrayed with dignity.
Although William Sidney Mount made his name as a genre artist, some of his most interesting paintings are landscape studies like this one, which captures the hazy, refracted sunlight on a North Shore beach at low tide. Unlike his studio genre scenes, this painting was largely executed outdoors; towards the end of his life, Mount himself concluded that “my best pictures are the ones I painted outdoors”.