Paysage De Buis-les Baronnies 1943

Paysage De Buis-les Baronnies by Cassandre is a land of ochre, raw umber, and sienna. It's got that solid, grounded feel to it, a painting built up from layer upon layer, like the earth itself forming over millennia. I imagine Cassandre, squinting in the bright sunlight of the South of France, trying to capture not just what he saw, but what he felt. The solidity of the rocks, the way the light bounced off the leaves of the trees. The paint is thin, almost translucent in places, allowing the canvas to breathe and that sky, so like the Dutch Masters but with a warmth, a Mediterranean glow. That lone tree on the left – it’s so delicate, so precise. It's a beautiful conversation between what we know and what we see, what we feel and what we understand. Artists are constantly talking to each other across time, riffing off each other's ideas, inspiring each other's creativity.