View of Cagnes
About this artwork
An oil painting on canvas depicting a hillside town, characterized by turbulent brushwork and distorted architectural forms. It is part of the collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Did you know?
Chaïm Soutine is famous for his intense, frenetic painting style that often seems to make landscapes tremble or buckle under their own weight. He frequently visited the town of Cagnes in the south of France, where he painted a series of these highly emotive townscapes that capture his own psychological restlessness as much as the physical surroundings.
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View of Cagnes
Chaïm Soutine, 1924
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