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Chaim Soutine

Landscape of Gourdon (Paysage du Gourdon)

c. 1920–1921
Oil on canvas
88.3 × 55.6 cm (34.8 × 21.9 in)

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Gourdon is a medieval Provençal village perched on a rocky peak and known for its panoramic views of the Mediterranean Sea. None of this is evident from Soutine's Landscape of Gourdon , however, in which a wind-blown, writhing screen of trees presses against the foreground, and the whitish spaces between them emerge in sculptural masses of paint. Soutine painted a series of landscapes following his 1918 flight from war-torn Paris to Provence, which included a stay in Cagnes-sur-Mer with Renoir, who was engaged in painting Mediterranean scenes in a more classical style.

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