Like a Painting
Apr 05, 2021
3 minutes
By Dorynna Untivero
Even Vincent Van Gogh had difficulty depicting just how picturesque he found Provence. He wrote his brother Theo in 1889, “It’s too beautiful for me to dare paint it or be able to form an idea of it.” So with Paul Cézanne who, legend has it, braved a storm just to paint the beauty emanating from the refracted colours in the rain. The deep passion for the region of painters such us Van Gogh and Cézanne starts off the book,, published by Assouline. Across 157 pages is an invitation to discover its nature and why everyone falls in love with Provence again and again.
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