COLLECTION NAME:
The AMICA Library
Record
AMICA ID:
CMA_.1958.21
AMICA Library Year:
1998
Object Type:
Paintings
Creator Name:
Cézanne, Paul
Creator Nationality:
European; French
Creator Role:
artist
Creator Dates/Places:
1839 - 1906
Gender:
M
Creator Name-CRT:
Paul Cézanne
Title:
Mount Sainte-Victoire
Title Type:
Primary
View:
Full View
Creation Date:
c. 1904
Creation Start Date:
1902
Creation End Date:
1906
Materials and Techniques:
oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Unframed: 72.2cm x 92.4cm
AMICA Contributor:
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Owner Location:
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
ID Number:
1958.21
Credit Line:
Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.
Context:
During his later years Cézanne repeatedly painted the towering mountain of Sainte-Victoire, which rises just east of his home in Aix-en-Provence, France. In this series of paintings, one of the most revolutionary in the history of art, Cézanne increasingly compressed space into an integrated structure of intersecting planes. Here, the rising slope of the mountain echoes the silhouette of the branch that extends out from the upper left, thereby relating foreground to background. The dark tree on the right is flattened, but at the same time space is suggested by patterns of alternating warm and cool colors.
Related Image Identifier Link:
CMA_.1958.21.tif
