This is one of a series of beach scenes at Rosas on the Costa Brava which Dalí painted in 1934-6 using traditional materials applied with a very confident hand. A mahogany panel was prepared with an oil based ground and then the background "set" was painted in paint bound with poppy oil. The figures were painted onto the background with a very liquid oil and resin paint which Dali applied with great skill and precision of placement.
Patricia Smithen is Conservator of Modern and Contemporary Paintings at Tate. She has just completed a study of the paintings by Salvador Dali in the Tate Collection and is contributing to a research project on Tate's Surrealist paintings. She is a member of the Modern Paints Research Project carrying out research and treatments on the surface cleaning of acrylic paintings.
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