Beach at Deauville Painting Monet This opulent portrait casts a

This opulent portrait casts a silverback gorilla as a noble aristocrat

where its soft palette can soothe rather than stimulate

Its rounded body is painted in warm orange and gold with cool blue scales along the belly

green and stormy blue suits pale wood

sunshine on snow with the last colour of autumn still lingering

Beach at Deauville Painting Monet This opulent portrait casts aThis 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