Beach at Deauville Painting Monet where its soft palette can

where its soft palette can soothe rather than stimulate

It commands attention above a desk or in a study

sunshine on snow with the last colour of autumn still lingering

catching the warm glow that filters through the blurred amber and gold foliage behind

Beach at Deauville Painting Monet where its soft palette canThis cheerful seaside scene lines up a row of striped beach tents along the wide pale sand of Deauville, their bold reds, yellows and blues glowing in clear morning light. Slender flagpoles rise between them, pennants fluttering, while a lone parasol and scattered deckchairs dot the sand toward a calm strip of sea. Above, a vast blue sky is brushed with crisp white cumulus that fills more than half the canvas. The flattened, graphic brushwork gives