Van Gogh « La haute note jaune»
En 1888, Van Gogh peint sa chambre. Cette image, fameuse parce que tellement reproduite, a beaucoup compté pour le peintre. Elle est volontairement simple, et pourtant elle apparaît comme fort étrange, les objets semblent fuir et l'espace se déformer. Certains auteurs s'en sont servis pour arguer de la folie du peintre. Mais si le peintre avait raison ? Si c'était l'espace lui-même qui était fou ?

Gauguin « Harmonies sauvages»
Pour atteindre sa "poésie des tons", Gauguin bourlingue en Bretagne, à Panama et en Martinique, "terres des libertés primitives". Toujours à la recherche d'êtres pas encore "gâtés par le progrès" et empreints d'une "religiosité archaïque", il donnera le meilleur de sa peinture en Polynésie. Le tableau Arearea ("Amusements") a été peint lors de son premier séjour à Tahiti.

Cézanne « La violence du motif »
Né à Aix-en-Provence, Cézanne, après quelques voyages, revient s'y installer. D'un paysage prisé par les peintres locaux, la montagne Sainte-Victoire, il fait son motif. Il le traitera de différents points de vue, dans différents styles et en toute saison, plus d'une soixantaine de fois. Une sorte d'obstination étrange sur laquelle Alain Jaubert a mené l'enquête.

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Van Gogh « La haute note jaune»
In October 1888, Vincent Van Gogh, who had lived for eight months at Arles, painted his room. A year later, when he found himself shut up in the asylum of Saint-Paul de Mausole near Saint-Rémy, he felt the need to make two copies of this painting he so loved. This picture, famous because it has been reproduced in several different graphic formats, meant a great deal to the painter.

Gauguin « Harmonies sauvages»
To mark the centenary of Paul Gauguin's death, the series "Palettes" focuses on a picture painted during his first stay on Tahiti.
Gauguin started out in the merchant navy, then became a stockbroker on the Paris Bourse. He married a young Danish girl, Mette Gad, and had a family with her. In the meantime, he had begun to paint. To produce his "tone poems", he wandered Brittany, Panama and Martinique, "lands of primitive freedoms", constantly searching for beings not yet spoiled by progress who were imbued with an archaic religious quality. He was to do his best work in Polynesia. Arearea ("Joyousness") was painted during his first stay on Tahiti. When it was exhibited in Durand-Ruel's gallery in 1893, critics were especially puzzled by the orange dog in the foreground.

Cézanne « La violence du motif »
After several years of travelling, Cézanne moved back to Aix-en-Provence, his place of birth. As of this point, he barely left the area, and spent his days painting in his studio or outdoors. And the local landscape, with the majestic Montagne Sainte-Victoire, became his primary subject and motif. He captured the mountain under every light, from different points of view, in different styles, and during different seasons, more than sixty times, in oil, drawings, and watercolour. A strange obstination, demanding an inquiry.



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