This painting depicts a beach scene in the Eastern Pyrenees at Saint-Cyprien in Roussillon, where the turquoise waters of the Mediterranean sea, the white sand and the red rocks create an exceptional setting.

But beyond a stronger opposition than on the Atlantic beaches between the zones of shadow and light and a succession of animated shots of bathers in colours as red as the rocks of the landscape, the artist plays above all with geometric cut-outs to imprint our retina with a few key spots.

The yellow and green sun disk in the central parasol, for example, undeniably animates this painting and makes it so endearing.

At the end of the 1970s, Germaine Lacaze made a few “infidelities” to the Bassin d’Arcachon and perhaps, under the effect of her memories of Central America, rubbed shoulders with the strong luminosity of Mediterranean landscapes, which are rougher, drier and less aquatic.