Beach Scene, 1883, Pen and brown ink with watercolor wash on buff paper, darkened, 3 3/8 x 4 3/4 in. ( x 12 cm), Drawings

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Beach Scene, 1883, Pen and brown ink with watercolor wash on buff paper, darkened, 3 3/8 x 4 3/4 in. ( x 12 cm), Drawings, Auguste Renoir (French, Limoges 1841–1919 Cagnes-sur-Mer), This tiny watercolor was made on the southeast coast of Guernsey, an island in the English Channel. Renoir took great delight in Guernsey, as he remarked in a letter to his dealer Paul Durand-Ruel. There is “no better sight than this mixture of women and men crowded together on these rocks

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Size: 5262px × 3478px
Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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