Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from les Lauves

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Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from les Lauves: Paul Cezanne

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Paul Cezanne Oil Painting - Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from les Lauves

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Work Overview: Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from les Lauves
Paul Cezanne
Date: c.1906
Style: Cubism
Period: Final period
Genre: landscape
Media: oil, canvas
Location: Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia

Comparing this work with a photograph taken from the spot where it was painted, Erle Loran has observed:

'Here is one of the last paintings Cézanne made of the mountain, and without the accompanying photograph of the motif it might be considered highly abstract. Definite transformations have certainly been made and the arbitrariness of the individual color planes is typical of the series of late paintings done from this location.

'The motif reveals typical aerial perspective or fading away of the mountain, which is seen here from a distance of eleven miles or more; but although Cézanne has eliminated its details he has given the mountain an intensity almost equal to that of the foreground forms and has emphasized its height. The photograph shows a gradual diminishing and fading away from the immediate foreground toward the distant mountain... Cézanne, on the contrary, has kept this vast space comparatively shallow without losing the effect of planes stepping back into the distance. In fact, Cézanne's painting actually involves more distance than the photograph shows. The large area of trees is almost entirely missing in the photograph.

'Three-dimensionality is clearly established; yet in this painting, as in the entire series to which it belongs, the allover patchwork of color planes produces a pronounced two-dimensionality. The individual planes are definitely flat and the line drawing is more segmented and ragged than usual, making the larger divisions less clear in space. Strong construction lines that 'carry through' vertically, diagonally, and horizontally afford still more two-dimensionality.'

In 1902, Cézanne bought a plot of land on the Chemin des Lauves, on an otherwise undeveloped hillside to the north of Aix, and had a two-storey house built with a large studio, some five metres high, on the first floor. He used the studio early in the morning and in the late afternoon. When it became too hot, he would paint watercolours on the terrace, which was surrounded by bushes and small trees and had a magnificent view of the town of Aix.

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