Paul Cézanne - The gulf of Marseille seen from l'Estaque 1885
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The gulf of Marseille seen from l'Estaque 1885
80x100cm oil/canvas
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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From Art Institute of Chicago:
In scale and resolution, this is the culminating work of a series of landscapes that Paul Cézanne painted at L'Estaque, a Mediterranean fishing village a few miles from Marseilles. During the early 1880s, he came to cherish L'Estaque as a retreat from the complexities of family life. It inspired some of his grandest landscapes, which are remarkable for the sense of deliberation and structure in every brushstroke and the finely balanced palette of blues and ochers.