Houses at l'Estaque

Maisons à l'Estaque is an oil on canvas made by Georges Braque during his so-called Estaque period during which he painted three versions of the same subject under the same title. This version (1908) is on display at the Museum of Fine Arts in Bern while Maisons et arbre is on display at the Musée d'art moderne in Lille, the third (1907) belonging to an American private collector. It is part of the so-called cubist period of the artist because its simplification of forms served as the basis for the homonymous movement.