
Henry Scott Tuke
Beach Study
1928
40 x 32 cm
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This is one of the last paintings Tuke did before he died in March 1929, of the semi-clad male figure by the sea leaning on the rocks, bathed in Cornish sunlight. It features one of his most loyal and longstanding models in Tuke’s later years, Charlie Mitchell (1885 – 1957).