The Gulf of Marseilles Seen from L'Estaque, Paul Cézanne, ca. 1885

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The Gulf of Marseilles Seen from L'Estaque, ca. 1885, Oil on canvas, 28 3/4 x 39 1/2 in. (73 x cm), Paintings, Paul Cézanne (French, Aix-en-Provence 1839–1906 Aix-en-Provence), Cézanne enthused about the fishing village of L’Estaque to Pissarro in 1876: 'It is like a playing card. Red roofs over the blue sea. . . . The sun is so terrific here that it seems to me as if the objects were silhouetted not only in black and white, but in blue, red, brown, and violet

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