Built stroke by stroke
Paul Cézanne
Cézanne in the years he was rebuilding painting from the ground up. Mont Sainte-Victoire above the viaduct of the Arc valley, card players bent over their game, Madame Cézanne in a red dress, apples beside a pot of primroses, a seated peasant, the Domaine Saint-Joseph among its trees. Everything is made of small, square strokes laid side by side like tiles.
As a puzzle
Kinder than it looks. Those square, directional strokes give every patch of wall, cloth or hillside its own slant and its own blend of greens and ochres, so pieces sort by stroke as much as by colour. The pale skies over Sainte-Victoire are the only real stretch. A high count suits these well.
A good size here: 80–300 pieces.
Also filed under Post-Impressionism
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