Trouville

Painted some ten years ago at Trouville, a small beach situated on the island Hankoe in the Oslo Fjord. Last half of the 19th century this island became famous for clinics where they prescribed, for the good bourgeoisie, water therapies of different natures. Customized to la mode du temps the different attractions were given French names (Trouville is originally the name of a resort town in north-west France, by the English channel). From this beach you could, after having paid a small fee, lower your body into the salt water of the fjord while you inhaled the fresh air from the island's forests, apparently an unbeatable combination for the health.

The cliff wall on the right side faces north. The rocks and stones lying there have been pushed over the edge by the glacier during the last ice age, and protected by the very steep wall, they haven't been grinded round by the ice.

19,5x25,5", mostly Unison pastels.