In this picture, written in 1924, Dali portrayed his friend Juan Hirau. At present, the canvas is kept in the family of the descendants of Hirau. On the beach, on a white blanket, a man is sunbathing. He has a typical bathing suit at that time, the foot of one foot is thrown on the bent knee of the other. With the elbow of his hand, he covers his eyes from the sun.
Not far from him is a white car. In a picturesque manner, one can see the influence of Picasso during the “blue” and “pink” periods and partly the subsequent avant-garde experiments. This is not Cubism, but there is already some conscious coarsening of the texture, admiring the sharpness of the wrinkles on the clothes and bedspread, light “geometricity” in the drawing of the muscles of the chest and neck of a lying person. The famous portrait of Luis Buñuel, written by Dali in the same year, is executed in the same manner.
And two years later, the artist will create a picture of “Flesh on the rocks,” which fully complied with all the canons of cubism, and which depicts a woman sunbathing on the beach. Dali at that time, in search of his own style of writing, appealed to various styles and imitated many famous artists of his time, but as a result his author’s style went far away from Cubism.
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