André Derain, Landscape of Provence

Derain painted two versions of this same scene, and both now belong to the Musée de l'Orangerie. The brown tree on the right side of the canvas is a device borrowed from Cezanne: placing a tree or large rock in the foreground creates a natural sense of depth, making whatever lies behind it read as distant, without the artist having to calculate a formal vanishing point. Derain adopted this favorite technique of Cezanne's for his own landscape.