The Gulf of Marseille Seen from L’Estaque, 1878 by Paul Cézanne

The Gulf of Marseille Seen from L’Estaque, 1878, by Paul Cézanne looks out from the hillside above L’Estaque across the wide, still waters of the gulf toward distant mountains and the port of Marseille, with rooftops and a factory chimney rising among olive-toned terraces in the foreground. Cézanne reduces sea, land, and sky into broad, deliberate planes of color, a structural clarity from the French Post-Impressionist painter (1839-1906) that later Cubist painters would cite as a direct forebear of their own compositions.

Artist: Paul Cézanne (French, 1839-1906). Date: 1878.

The Gulf of Marseille Seen from L’Estaque, 1878 by Paul Cézanne. Post-Impressionist Oil Painting Reproduction Canvas Print.