Lot Essay
The present lot "By the Sea, St Tropez" was executed in 1928 and was part of a series of "Sunbathers' mostly entitled "Sous la Tonelle" or "Sur la Plage". Most of these paintings were exhibited in 1929 with 'Frans Buffa in the Kalverstraat in Amsterdam. An art critic in a Dutch newspaper commments on the series as follows: The plasticity of the figures against the sparkling sky and the warm beach is often a happy one; yet there is something deliberate about these figures, a sensual accent which displeasures us (cf. Ubbens/Huizing, 1995, pp.61-62)