The Colours of Cézanne on Mont Sainte-Victoire

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The Colours of Cézanne on Mont Sainte-Victoire is a work by contemporary artist Clotilde Philipon, part of her series dedicated to the famous Provençal mountain, the eternal muse of Paul Cézanne.

In this painting, the artist pays tribute to the master’s final years by drawing inspiration from the tones and harmonies of his later depictions of Mont Sainte-Victoire. The palette is bolder and more contrasted here: deep blues, intense greens, flashes of ochre and reddish-orange convey the energy and pictorial freedom that characterised the painter’s final period.

The landscape remains powerful and monumental, yet is suffused with a shifting, almost unstable light that lends the scene an atmosphere of raw emotion. True to her style, Clotilde Philipon blends figuration with freer brushstrokes, allowing the paint to breathe and the colour to fully express itself.

The Colours of Cézanne on Mont Sainte-Victoire is both a respectful homage to Cézanne’s genius and a contemporary reinterpretation of one of his most emblematic motifs, where colour becomes the true subject of the canvas.