Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
This sunlit orange grove in the south of France dates from the years when Fauvism erupted in Paris. It sits where divisionism was giving way to pure colour. The short, blocky, directional strokes of the cobalt and turquoise sky still recall Signac and Cross. The palette, though, has broken free of optical theory. The trunks are rose-pink and violet, and the canopy is a lattice of emerald and ultramarine studded with golden fruit. Shadows fall as solid pools of indigo across ochre and terracotta ground. That hybrid handling places the work firmly in 1905–1908. In those years Matisse, Derain and their circle were making the same transition in the Midi, and Yarrow Jones...
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Early 1900s Fauvist Landscape Paintings