The beach painted by the world’s greatest artists / photo gallery
The beach – bright, stormy, gloomy and blissful – has been popular with artists for centuries. Its beauty and melancholy have been rendered in different ways over the ages.
Curatorial chose some of the most beautiful beaches painted by artists like Joaquin Sorolla, Claude Monet, Caspar David Friedrich and Gheorghe Petrascu.
Caspar David Friedrich, The Monk by the Sea, 1808 – 1810
Claude Monet, La Plage à Trouville, 1870
Édouard Manet, Sur la plage, 1873
Mary Cassatt, Children Playing on the Beach, 1884
Henri Matisse, Joy of Life, 1905
Joaquin Sorolla, Paseo a la orilla del mar, 1909
Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Beach Scene, 1910 – 1913
Pe plajă după ploaie, de Gheorghe Petrașcu (1872 – 1949)
Pablo Picasso, Two Women Running on the Beach (The Race), 1922
