Paul Cezanne Mountain Painting Frame:Oak elegance scattered with golden wildflowers and

scattered with golden wildflowers and punctuated by dark clusters of fir and spruce

lifted by the scarf's reds and oranges

suggesting distant land swallowed by dusk

with knobbly twig arms outstretched and dark coal buttons marching down his front

Paul Cezanne Mountain Painting Frame:Oak elegance scattered with golden wildflowers andCezanne's beloved Mont Sainte Victoire rises in the distance, its pale ochre and grey blue mass dominating the horizon beneath a softly clouded sky. In the foreground, a tall pine leans across the frame, its dark canopy spreading over a patchwork valley of green fields, scattered trees and small ochre buildings. A faint viaduct stretches along the right, threading the cultivated plain together in muted greens and earthy golds. The loose, layered