This beautiful beach composition shows a young woman in the foreground, seen from behind, leaving the beach, her parasol on her left shoulder, clutching with her right hand that of a young child, seen from the front, sitting crouched at her feet in the lower right-hand corner of the canvas. A third figure, a young girl with a black ponytail, is also painted from behind, under the woman’s left arm.

A typically Lacazian beach landscape completes the scene in several successive shots: a red parasol inhabited by bathers in front of a forest of tents, at the foot of a shapeless dune with yellow reflections, topped by a few dark green pines in the upper right-hand corner.

The alignment of the arms, from the shortened left arm of the young woman to the left arm of the child, structures the canvas diagonally and reinforces the gaze that the two characters exchange.

The sunny colours of the young woman’s naked back and legs play with the whites between several red spots (sunhat, swimwear, parasol). Cool colours complete the palette of the canvas.