<Campagne heureuse>

This painting belongs to the series Marionnettes de la ville et de la campagne [Marionettes of the City and the Country]. It reflects the maturity of an artist who incorporated all the defining features of his corpus—frontality, awkward drawing, and a free use of colour—while simultaneously transcending it through a profound manipulation of the materials used. Perspective has been rejected, and the objects are “transformed into pancakes, as though flattened by a pressing iron,” while the drawing suggests “the ancestral spontaneity of the human hand when it draws its signs.”