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In the decade after his final 1885 sojourn in L'Estaque, Cézanne continued to depict the Provençal landscape in several locations outside of Aix. The decade was a turbulent one personally for Cézanne: his father died, he was diagnosed with diabetes, and he broke off relations with his oldest friend, Zola. Despite the emotional upheaval, the paintings from this period are suggestive of Cézanne's continuing aspiration, in his own words, "to make of impressionism something solid and enduring, like the art in museums." Near his sister Rose Conil's home, to the south of Aix, he was attracted to the views around the valley of the River Arc toward the Montagne Sainte-Victoire and the house and dovecote of a hilltop property known as Bellevue. He painted the interlocking masses of these two ocher-colored structures on several occasions: for example, Dovecote at Bellevue, 1889–1890, and House and Dovecote at Bellevue, 1890–1892. |
