<Paysage à Cagnes (La Gaude)>

The Belarusian painter Chaïm Soutine brought back around two hundred landscapes from his stays in the south of France, first in Céret and then in Cagnes in the years 1918-1919. They are characterised by the distortion of pictorial space and the expressionist violence of gestures and colours. In Cagnes, Soutine painted the hill of La Gaude several times. In this version, the curvilinear forms emphasise the instability of the composition, while the volumes seem in danger of being swallowed up by the thick paint.