When was mont sainte victoire painted

Though the outermost contour is immediately apparent, inside of it one can also discern a second line or, more accurately, a series of lines and edges. The two converge just shy of the mountaintop. The area between this outer contour and the interior line or ridge demarcates a distinctive spatial plane; this slope recedes away from us and connects to the larger mountain range lying behind the sheer face. Attend to this area, and the mountain seems to gain volume. It becomes less of an irregular triangle and more of a complicated pyramid.

The small triangular patch of light gray—actually the priming of the canvas—can be read as belonging to the space immediately above the mountain or perhaps as a cloud behind it. Thus it is the gray and light blue brushstrokes immediately below this patch that describe the downward slant of the mountain top. Curiously, in one respect, our point-of-view is actually a little misleading.

At an elevation of feet meters , the left peak is not the highest point, but merely appears to so from Les Lauves. A huge iron cross—la croix de Provence—was erected on this spot in the early s, the fourth to be placed there. He had thoroughly explored the countryside around Aix, first during youthful rambles with his friends and later as a plein-air artist in search of motifs.

And we know for certain that he had climbed to the top of the mountain as recently as As he stood there, perhaps he paused to recall some of the paintings of Mont Sainte-Victoire he had already made. Annenberg, Accession Number: Panorama de Ste Victoire, 55 x 95"; valued at Fr 12, upon purchase, in shares with Bernheim-Jeune, Paris; reverted to Vollard's sole ownership from unknown date until ; sold to Wildenstein]; [Wildenstein, New York, —64; sold on May 8 to Annenberg]; Walter H.

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