Renoir is famous for skin, for light on faces, for Sunday afternoons. He was known for warm tones. Pink and gold. Blues like these weren't really his territory.
In 1879 he was invited to the Normandy coast. Somewhere between dinners and social obligations he walked down to the shore and painted this. Just water meeting sky in a thousand shades of blue.
Like a singer who suddenly nails a song in a genre nobody expected
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