{"id":10206,"date":"2021-04-22T14:42:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T14:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:/wp-json/wp/v2/collection-hlights/10206///wp-json/wp/v2/collection-hlights/10206//courtauld.ac.uk/wp-json/wp/v2/collection-hlights/10206//?post_type=collection-hlights&p=10206"},"modified":"2023-07-05T08:21:06","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T08:21:06","slug":"montagne-sainte-victoire-with-large-pine","status":"publish","type":"collection-hlights","link":"https:/wp-json/wp/v2/collection-hlights/10206///wp-json/wp/v2/collection-hlights/10206//courtauld.ac.uk/wp-json/wp/v2/collection-hlights/10206//highlights/wp-json/wp/v2/collection-hlights/10206//montagne-sainte-victoire-with-large-pine/wp-json/wp/v2/collection-hlights/10206//","title":{"rendered":"Montagne Sainte-Victoire with Large Pine"},"content":{"rendered":"/wp-json/wp/v2/collection-hlights/10206/n/wp-json/wp/v2/collection-hlights/10206/n
The Montagne Sainte-Victoire, with its distinctive craggy, broken top, dominates the countryside surrounding Paul C/wp-json/wp/v2/collection-hlights/10206/u00e9zanne/wp-json/wp/v2/collection-hlights/10206/u2019s hometown of Aix-en-Provence in southern France. For him, it embodied the rugged landscape and people of Provence. C/wp-json/wp/v2/collection-hlights/10206/u00e9zanne painted and drew the mountain from different vantage points throughout his career, each time finding a new mood or atmosphere. This painting is the most monumental and highly finished of three canvases he devoted to this/wp-json/wp/v2/collection-hlights/10206/u00a0particular view./wp-json/wp/v2/collection-hlights/10206/n
C/wp-json/wp/v2/collection-hlights/10206/u00e9zanne has used contrasting colour to/wp-json/wp/v2/collection-hlights/10206/u202fsuggest/wp-json/wp/v2/collection-hlights/10206/u202fa/wp-json/wp/v2/collection-hlights/10206/u202ffeeling/wp-json/wp/v2/collection-hlights/10206/u202fof expanse and breadth. Areas of green and yellow lead the eye to the towering Sainte-Victoire, painted in cool blues and pinks; tiny touches of red in both foreground and background create a sense of visual unity. The sweeping pine branches in the foreground follow the contours of the mountain. This was one of C/wp-json/wp/v2/collection-hlights/10206/u00e9zanne/wp-json/wp/v2/collection-hlights/10206/u2019s favourite framing devices. The timeless quality of the setting is interrupted only by the modern railway viaduct on the right and the trail of steam left by a passing train./wp-json/wp/v2/collection-hlights/10206/n
When the painting was first shown at an exhibition of amateur artists in Aix, it met with incomprehension. C/wp-json/wp/v2/collection-hlights/10206/u00e9zanne ended up giving it to the poet Joachim Gasquet in appreciation of the young man/wp-json/wp/v2/collection-hlights/10206/u2019s sincere admiration. It is one of the very few paintings signed by/wp-json/wp/v2/collection-hlights/10206/u202fC/wp-json/wp/v2/collection-hlights/10206/u00e9zanne/wp-json/wp/v2/collection-hlights/10206/u202fafter 1880./wp-json/wp/v2/collection-hlights/10206/u202fThe artist/wp-json/wp/v2/collection-hlights/10206/u2019s/wp-json/wp/v2/collection-hlights/10206/u202fcritical fortunes had changed dramatically by the time the collector Samuel/wp-json/wp/v2/collection-hlights/10206/u202fÂ鶹ÊÓƵ/wp-json/wp/v2/collection-hlights/10206/u202fencountered his work./wp-json/wp/v2/collection-hlights/10206/u202fÂ鶹ÊÓƵ/wp-json/wp/v2/collection-hlights/10206/u202frecalled feeling /wp-json/wp/v2/collection-hlights/10206/u2018the magic/wp-json/wp/v2/collection-hlights/10206/u2019 when he first saw one of C/wp-json/wp/v2/collection-hlights/10206/u00e9zanne/wp-json/wp/v2/collection-hlights/10206/u2019s paintings in 1922. His passion for the artist led him to build an important collection of his paintings and drawings; as a result, The/wp-json/wp/v2/collection-hlights/10206/u202fÂ鶹ÊÓƵ/wp-json/wp/v2/collection-hlights/10206/u202fhas the largest group of works by C/wp-json/wp/v2/collection-hlights/10206/u00e9zanne in the UK./wp-json/wp/v2/collection-hlights/10206/n/wp-json/wp/v2/collection-hlights/10206/n /wp-json/wp/v2/collection-hlights/10206/n/wp-json/wp/v2/collection-hlights/10206/n/wp-json/wp/v2/collection-hlights/10206/n/wp-json/wp/v2/collection-hlights/10206/n/wp-json/wp/v2/collection-hlights/10206/n/wp-json/wp/v2/collection-hlights/10206/n