Pink-roofed town, France
(c. 1926-1927)
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 42.5 × 53.0 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Grasse, France
- Accession Number
- 2021.85
- Department
- International Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Krystyna Campbell-Pretty AM and Family through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program, 2021
© Artist's estate - Gallery location
- Late 19th & early 20th Century Paintings & Decorative Arts Gallery
Level 2, NGV International - About this work
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Trained in a conservative manner to be a portrait painter, Mary Swanzy expanded her horizons by studying in Paris in 1905–6. She turned to landscape painting, using an intense colour palette influenced by the work of the French Fauvist artists. This painting depicts the historic town centre of Grasse, a renowned centre for perfume production in Provence in the south of France. While the composition of Pink-roofed town, France is indebted to Swanzy’s study of the landscapes of Paul Cézanne as well as the French Cubist movement, Cubism was only one style in which Swanzy worked in the 1920s and1930s.