During her winter stay in Liguria in 1905/06, Gabriele Münter captured the motif of laundry and boats on the beach in a series of photos, sketches and oil studies. Two years later, during a stay in Paris, she focused intensively on printmaking and took up the motif again. She skilfully implemented it in one of her most famous linocuts. Various items of laundry are hung over a pole running parallel to the horizon, casting their shadows on the beach. On the right are a few boats pulled ashore, their raised bows reaching into the sky above the clothes pole. On the left, a small girl shown from behind completes the picture. What in an earlier color sketch and a gouache still had many colorful details, Münter reduced almost to a silhouette in the linocut. She works with delicate gray and pastel tones, from which a red item of laundry stands out in the middle. The sea is only recognizable by a tiny sailing ship on the left on the horizon, and the boats - if at all - almost only by the hull and its shadow. Münter confidently filters out interesting structures and shapes from the variety of beach scenes and combines them into an exciting composition with a high degree of abstraction. At the same time, the connection between the hanging skirt and the bent ends of the boat seems to play with the motif of cancan dancers with their legs thrown up. The clothes laid out on the pole, the child looking out to sea and the ship disappearing on the horizon are evidence not only of a bright sunny day by the sea, but also of Münter's happiest time with Kandinsky in Rapallo.