The crowded beach life of La Croisette merges in this composition. Busy beaches can produce their own unique patterns. Here the numerous umbrellas found on the beaches of the Côte d’Azur form a canopy and fill the spaces between beachgoers. I have pared the figures and beach accessories to the outer point of remaining intelligible but where they become a tableau of interlocking shapes painted with approximately 40 colours (I always mix these, never from the tube).