La Grande Plage, detail of men unloading carts and donkeys waiting, watercolour painting on canvas, 1925-35, by Augustin Hanicotte, in an exhibition entitled L’eau à la Bouche, February - May 2020, in the Musee d'Art Moderne de Collioure, in Collioure, Pyrenees-Orientales, Catalogne du Nord, France. This large canvas pictures all of daily life unfolding on the beach at Collioure, with fishermen, priests, groups of women, traditional barques catalanes, the Chateau Royal and Fort Saint-Elme. The Collioure Museum was created by the painter Jean Peske in 1934 and has a collection of modern and contemporary art. Collioure is a small town depicted by many artists in the 20th century, on the Vermilion Coast near the Spanish border. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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