Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from les Lauves 1906

"Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from les Lauves" is a landscape painting by Paul Cézanne, created in 1906, just months before his death. The painting, now housed in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, captures the iconic mountain in the south of France, a frequent subject of Cézanne's work. It is considered a prime example of the artist's signature style, characterized by its bold brushstrokes, fractured planes, and sense of depth. The layered, geometric forms of the mountain and the surrounding landscape embody Cézanne's pursuit of "constructing" nature through color and form. This exploration of perspective and composition, along with the vivid, almost abstract, use of color, cemented Cézanne's place as a pivotal figure in the development of modern art, influencing the likes of Cubism and Abstract Expressionism.