the beach and the pier at trouville raoul dufyThis painting, produced in 1905, belongs to a period when Raoul Dufy was still very much influenced by the Impressionists and the work of Eugne Boudin. He chose to depict a seaside scene on the Normandy coast, a very popular theme in French painting at the time, linked to bourgeois leisure activities and booming seaside resorts. The composition shows a crowd of strollers gathered on a beach and a wooden jetty, facing the sea. The palette is dominated