Landscape at L'Estaque

Installed in a boarding house in l'Estaque, near Marseille, Georges Braque was fascinated by the light he discovered there. In this landscape, he represents an alley strewn with trees while including a human life with the Mediterranean houses, revealing in the background the discreet view of the sea.

He is inspired by Paul Cézanne by breaking down shadows and lights, thanks to shimmering colors, which articulate together to form a most harmonious composition.

Georges Braque is still at the beginning of his career, when he is interested in Fauvism and of which he will be one of the first representatives with Henri Matisse and André Derain.

This instinctive painting, in which he simplifies forms in favor of chromatic audacity, leads him to question the lines and colors of his compositions, gradually leading him to cubism.