Paul Cézanne
Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from the Bibémus Quarry
1897
Painted by Paul Cézanne around 1897 from the Bibémus quarry above Aix-en-Provence, this late view of Mont Sainte-Victoire builds the foreground of red and ochre limestone blocks, a middle belt of pines, and the distant triangular mountain out of stacked, geometric patches of colour. It is among the clearest demonstrations of Cézanne's dictum to 'treat nature in terms of the sphere, the cylinder, and the cone' — the proof-point Picasso and Braque would return to when inventing Cubism a decade later. The picture anchors the Baltimore Museum of Art's outstanding holdings of late 19th-century French painting.
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