Dunes

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Sand Dunes near Boulogne-sur-Mer, France (c. 1870) by Joséphine Bowes.

Dunes. Having visited the sand dunes that run along the French and Belgian coast it’s notable how much dune art has taken them as a subject. Belgian Symbolist Léon Spilliaert returned to them frequently, and managed to invest the littoral with a greater sense of mystery than many of his contemporaries.

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Dune Landscape (1911) by Piet Mondrian.

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Girls on a Dune (1913) by Léon Spilliaert.

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Dunes, Oceano (1936) by Edward Weston.

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Dune (1961) by Alexander MacKenzie.

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Pale Dunes (1970) by Ronnie Landfield.