L'estaque

In selecting his motif for this painting, Cézanne set his easel on a hill that gave a view of the rooftops of the town on the left, and the bay of L’Estaque in the distance. The great stone cliffs which rise abruptly on the right of the canvas suggest that Cézanne’s location was just above the house he had rented in 1882. Unlike most of the landscapes Cézanne painted from high vantage points, which are vistas that open onto unenclosed and often vast spaces, the artist chose here to emphasize compression and tautness — both in the closure that marks his composition, and in the limited morphological range he gives his angular constructive brushstrokes.
This painting was owned for many years by the great Impressionist artist Claude Monet, whose own work tends to dissolve the landscape into pure effects of light. In contrast, the solidity and sobriety of L'Estaque are quite different — and in some ways opposed — to the Impressionists' emphasis on pure vision.

13.5"x11"
Sold with its 2 5/8" mat.Can fit any standard 20"X16" frame.