The Pigeon Tower at Bellevue
1890
- Medium
- oil on fabric
- Dimensions
- 65.6 × 81.5 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-109261
Paul Cezanne painted this composition in three horizontal planes: the azure blue of the sky; the luminous white of the tower and the farmyard buildings; and the burnt-orange shade of the foreground earth, whose color is indicative of the iron-rich soil of Provence. The shimmering greens of Cezanne’s favorite cypress and olive trees are interspersed across the middle ground. The composition is pared down to its essentials, devoid of extraneous detail; it exemplifies his ambition “to make something solid and enduring, like the art in museums.”
Provenance
Corrigan Memorial, 1936.19
Registry history
- 1890 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
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