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Paul Cézanne

Bibémus Quarry (Carrière de Bibémus)

c. 1895
Oil on canvas
92 × 73 cm (36.2 × 28.7 in)

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Cézanne rented a small shack on the edge of Bibémus, a rock quarry to the east of Aix-en-Provence, around 1895. The quarry had been abandoned since the 1830s, providing the artist with a landscape of eroded geometric shapes. The vertical format highlights the hill on the left, leading gradually down into the overgrowth of a ravine and moving upward to the right, where a steep, sheer rock face displays the manmade changes to the landscape.

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