Landscape at La Ciotat
Before Braque met Pablo Picasso, with whom he invented Cubism, he painted in the bright, bold colors shared by the Fauves, a loosely affiliated group of artists that also included Henri Matisse, André Derain, and Raoul Dufy. They were given this name—meaning "wild beasts"—by an unsympathetic critic in 1905, as a result of the high-pitched colors and anti-naturalistic rendering they embraced. In the summer of 1907 Braque worked in the resort town of La Ciotat, near Marseilles, where he painted this landscape using heavy outlines, flattened space, and intense, harmonic colors.
Credit: Acquired through the Katherine S. Dreier and Adele R. Levy Bequests
La Ciotat, summer 1907
Oil on canvas
71.7 x 59.4 cm
373.1975
Image © 2019 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris Text © MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York
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