Produced during one of Lisette Model’s most prolific periods in New York, the portrait of this jovial and voluptuous woman on the ocean shore is one of the artist’s most renowned works. The product of a commission to photograph Coney Island, it was the first of Model’s pictures to appear in Harper’s Bazaar magazine.

Lisette Model’s proximity to her models allows the viewer to become part of the scene being captured, as if one were also on that beach.