A stretch of beachfront bathed in light with, in the foreground, three bathers with their feet in the water. In the background, on the left, two parasols and silhouettes on a small dune. On the right, the distant perspective of an ocean shore under a setting sky reflected in the foreground on the sand and in the water.

This beach painting illustrates the power of Germaine Lacaze’s brush to create an undulating world where the reflections of light are the only riches worth immortalising.