Paysage Ou Rue Dans le Midi 1918 — Fine Art

The landscape or street scene in the south shows a few broad colour areas set on a light ground. Paysage Ou Rue Dans le Midi 1918 uses the kind of simplified shapes Henri Matisse often worked into from the early modernist period.

A fine art print set in a frame with a back panel keeps the picture steady on the wall. The matte surface keeps the colour areas soft and stops a lamp from making a shine on the face of the print. The assembled piece does not need extra fixing before it goes up.

It looks right above a plain chair in a kitchen where morning light falls sideways. From the doorway the big colour blocks read first, and up close the edges of the painted shapes show their separate patches.