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Date : near 1885
Material : Oil on canvas
Acquisition : Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection (1933)
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French Painting
Painting
Area related
Marseille (France)
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Cézanne first visited the tiny coastal village of L'Estaque in 1870-71 to escape conscription by the French army during the Franco-Prussian war. The true subject of this picture is the blue expanse of the Mediterranean, rendered as a dense, planar surface disrupted not even by a wave. The painting's highly compact structure, locked tightly in place like a puzzle, conveys the immutable, monumental character of the scenery at L'Estaque.
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