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In the footsteps of Cezanne in the Estaque district of Marseille

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Footsteps cezanne estaque district marseille:

The ocher. Meanwhile, steep roofs of houses, the smell of pines in the sun, the Opaline hills: the landscapes of the Estaque (16th), a small fishing village at the foot of the Ninthe chain, seduce Paul Cezanne (1839 – 1906). For example, Originally from Aix-en-Provence, the painter goes there several times. Similarly, It was in 1864 that he came to take refuge there with his partner to escape conscription. Moreover, He will make 53 works there: 32 canvases, 18 drawings and two watercolors.

The rocks then the port – Footsteps cezanne estaque district marseille

Here, Paul Cezanne will first decide to paint the rocks by the water. “”I’m trying to make perspective only by color“He writes. In his work The sea at the estaque behind the trees (1879). the painter takes up this idea by playing on flat colors between Provencal roofs and the impassive sea. “I started two footsteps cezanne estaque district marseille small patterns where there is the sea … It’s like a card to play. red roofs on the blue sea“, He wrote in a letter addressed to the painter Camille Pissarro, in 1876.

Very quickly, the artist paints his first canvases of the animated port, factories and limestone cliffs …

Then, more intimate scenes like the Mistral restaurant, known for its bouillabaisse, with silhouettes. On the Marinier crest. it climbs in the heights, with easels and brushes to grasp Marseille: The Gulf of Marseille seen from the Estaque (1885), today at the Musée d’Orsay.

footsteps cezanne estaque district marseille — Footsteps cezanne estaque district marseille: The ocher. steep roofs of houses, the smell of pines in the sun, the Opaline hills: the landscapes of the Estaque (16th), a small fishing village at the foot of the Ninthe chain, seduce Paul Cezanne (1839 – 1906). Originally from A.

Further reading: The banana of Maurizio Cattelan eaten in the Pompidou center in MetzHello Ketty. The offbeat images of the week in the goal of our photographerA house like a stone farm in Spain designed by architectsPhilippe Starck’s house, a hut on stilts in the heart of the pine forestParisian galleries under tension.

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