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Small House in the Garden, 1908 by Pablo Picasso

Another of the landscapes Picasso produced at La Rue-des-Bois reinforces the link between Picasso and Paul Cezanne. Here Picasso presents a humble scene, a small house fenced off from a pathway and framed by two trees. In the background a third tree appears silhouetted against a bluish-grey sky. It is the absence of detail and the solidity of the forms that relates most closely to Cezanne's work.

The house itself has been reduced to three solid planes - end wall, side wall and roof, though the latter two areas blend into each other. There is no indication of door, window or chimney, and the colours used to depict this house match those used to describe the surrounding landscape. Also the use of bold, diagonal brushstrokes reduces the sense of spatial recession and the background sky seems every bit as solid as the foreground tree, Notably, while Picasso was producing his Cezannesque landscapes in northern France, Georges Braque was producing similar works in the south at L'Estaque, in Cezanne's native Aix-en-Provence, Picasso and Braque exhibited these works together in Paris towards the end of 1908

Masterpieces of Pablo Picasso

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  • Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
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  • The Old Guitarist
    The Old Guitarist
  • Girl Before a Mirror
    Girl Before a Mirror
  • Three Musicians
    Three Musicians
  • Blue Nude
    Blue Nude
  • The Weeping Woman
    The Weeping Woman
  • The Dream
    The Dream
  • La Vie
    La Vie
  • The Women of Algiers
    The Women of Algiers
  • Ma Jolie
    Ma Jolie
  • Don Quixote
    Girl with Mandolin
  • Portrait of Gertrude Stein
    Portrait of Gertrude Stein
  • Family of Saltimbanques
    Family of Saltimbanques
  • Portrait of Ambroise Vollard
    Portrait of Ambroise Vollard
  • Massacre in Korea
    Massacre in Korea
  • Dora Maar Au Chat
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  • Seated Woman
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  • Chicago Picasso
    Chicago Picasso
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