Mont Sainte-Victoire, 1902
Paul Cézanne
The same mountain Cézanne returned to again and again, resolved into blocks of colour.
Cézanne painted this Provençal mountain more than thirty times, building it from patches of colour like coloured stone. Structure emerges from brushstroke; nature becomes architecture. These late landscapes changed the course of twentieth-century painting.
What you're looking at
There are gaps. Cézanne lays the landscape down as separate patches of colour and leaves bare canvas showing between many of them, and he stopped there — the picture is finished in the sense that he had said what he meant. The mountain is built out of the same marks as the plain in front of it, so the distance is asserted by colour alone rather than by anything getting smaller.
On a Frame TV
About 5:4. Matted file — the clean crop takes the sky the mountain is cut against. Light, warm and low in contrast, which makes it a good daylight picture.
- 4K master file (3840px+)
- Samsung Frame TV–ready crop
- Phone wallpaper crop
- Printable art card
Public domain · one .zip, no sign-up
More like this
Other works in the collection, starting with Paul Cézanne.
