Last week I lunched at the Coogee Pavilion on the most perfect day. The scene before me was almost identical to that captured by Elioth Gruner in his beautiful small painting Fisherman, Coogee Beach (1913). Small as it is, the painting seems to jump off the wall. There is an added poignancy in the date of the picture being almost on the eve of the horrors to come in the following year.