<Villefranche-sur-mer>

This painting by the Russian-born painter Leopold Survage depicts a small town in the south of France where he had just settled. Set against a verdant landscape in soft colours and framed by two semicircles representing the sky and the sea, the town occupies the centre of the painting. In the Cubist tradition, the artist opted for a simultaneity of perspectives. Inside and outside merge, with the flowerpot on the corner of the table on the same plane as the surrounding fruit trees.