{"id":84296,"date":"2021-09-02T18:12:42","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T16:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/svetslik.si\/uncategorized\/lestaque\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T12:50:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T10:50:53","slug":"lestaque","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/svetslik.si\/en\/paul-cezanne\/lestaque\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul C\u00e9zanne \u2013 L’Estaque"},"content":{"rendered":"

L\u2019Estaque \u2013 red roofs above a blue bay<\/h2>\n

L\u2019Estaque is a fishing village west of Marseille where C\u00e9zanne worked repeatedly and where he found one of his most recognisable subjects: densely packed orange roofs, and behind them a great, almost flat plane of sea. Our hand-painted reproduction on canvas brings this Mediterranean light into your home, painted in oil on canvas.<\/p>\n

The sea as a wall of colour<\/h3>\n

The most startling decision on this canvas is the sea: C\u00e9zanne painted it not as a depth receding towards the horizon but as an upright blue plane standing behind the roofs like a wall. It was exactly this reversal \u2013 depth turned into surface \u2013 that came as a revelation to the painters of the next generation.<\/p>\n

A place recommended by Zola<\/h3>\n

C\u00e9zanne first stayed at L\u2019Estaque for any length of time at the end of the 1860s, partly to avoid the call-up for the Franco-Prussian War. The village was also well known to his childhood friend, the writer \u00c9mile Zola. Over the following two decades C\u00e9zanne returned and painted the subject in several versions.<\/p>\n

What you see on the canvas<\/h3>\n

The scene is framed by dark trunks and branches in the foreground, through which the view opens downward onto the village. A factory chimney rises among the roofs \u2013 C\u00e9zanne did not hide the industrial motif but used it as a vertical. The original is painted in oil on canvas, measures 81 \u00d7 65 cm and, by the collection\u2019s record, was made between 1883 and 1885.<\/p>\n

The Mediterranean on canvas<\/h3>\n

The blue plane of the sea is everything in this subject \u2013 and that is precisely why we paint it by hand rather than print it. Ten sizes are there to choose from, and larger or non-standard ones we paint to your measurements. The subject also carries a bright, modern interior. How it will look in a frame we show you with a realistic 3D preview. Among our reproductions on canvas<\/strong> you will find C\u00e9zanne\u2019s other Mediterranean subjects: Mont Sainte-Victoire<\/a>, Ch\u00e2teau Noir<\/a> and Lake Annecy<\/a>.<\/p>\n