Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947), The Beach, c. 1922, oil on canvas, Private Collection
The sea is an eternal inspiration, from French Early Modernist Pierre Bonnatd’s use of jewel-like colors in The Beach to Australian Elioth Gruner’s brilliantly lighted Tamarama Beach to German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich’s mysterious nocturne Seascape by Moonlight.
Elioth Gruner (1882-1939), Tamarama Beach, 1920, oil on canvas, Private Collection
Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), Seascape by Moonlight, c. 1827-1828, oil on canvas, Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig, Germany
