Vernet (Provençal Landscape)
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A highly structured, rhythmic view of the landscape near Vernet-les-Bains in the South of France. The foreground is anchored by terraced fields, painted as distinct, curving bands of vivid yellow-green separated by deep, shadowed green lines. Above this, the terrain rises into rocky hills rendered in blocks of ochre, pink, and dark purple, leading to distant, snow-capped peaks. The sky is a flat, deep blue dotted with small, solid pink and white clouds. Traveling to the Pyrenees in search of warmer climates for his failing health, Innes brought his intense, Fauvist palette to the Mediterranean landscape, organizing the complex geography into a series of bold, undulating geometric patterns.