CÉZANNE, Paul
(b. 1839, Aix-en-Provence, d. 1906, Aix-en-Provence)

Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from Bibémus

1898-1900
Oil on canvas, 65 x 81 cm
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore

Cézanne's paintings aim at creating a permanence in the sense of timelessness, but a timelessness that also embraces solidity and flux, order and flexibility. His paintings of Mont Saint-Victoire show the mountain as the dominant motif of the landscape and the painting, a grand, monumental geological formation. Like another mountain in Provence, Mont Ventoux, Mont Sainte-Victoire has acquired an almost mythical status in the Provençal mind.