This small exhibition was worth the effort to go and see. Interesting that the earlier paintings by the French artists plus Whistler, showed the seaside developmement such as hotels, along the Normandy coast. Then they seemed to change their focus, and painted more romantic pictures of rocks, clouds, the light on the water. I prefer to see the modern world in all its grimness, colour and absurdity.
There is a pretty Renoir of some children on the beach in Guernsey, with small dancing figures of other children in the waves behind the girls, lightly sketched in. I hope all the RAs who paint seaside figures have a good look.
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