Mount Sainte-Victoire

c. 1904
(French, 1839–1906)
Framed: 87.5 x 106.5 x 7 cm (34 7/16 x 41 15/16 x 2 3/4 in.); Unframed: 72.2 x 92.4 cm (28 7/16 x 36 3/8 in.)
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Cezanne created 36 paintings and 45 watercolors of Mount Sainte-Victoire. He was obsessed with this subject and painted this mountain over and over until his death.

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During the last twenty years of his life, Cézanne repeatedly painted the towering mountain of Sainte-Victoire near his home in Aix-en-Provence. Aiming to reform Impressionism by bringing order and structure to the study of nature, he created tightly integrated compositions of merging, intersecting planes. Here, a rising tree branch echoes the distant mountain slope, thereby relating foreground to background. Sensations of space are created through rhythmic patterns of warm and cool color.
Mount Sainte-Victoire

Mount Sainte-Victoire

c. 1904

Paul Cezanne

(French, 1839–1906)
France, late 19th-early 20th Century

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