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This painting depicts several rectangles in different colors layered over one another, giving the impression of an abstract landscape. The top of the painting is made with short brushstrokes in white, pink, and light blue, suggesting a cloudy sky. Closer to us, there are abstract, block-like shapes in shades of light brown, pale yellow, lilac, dark green, and eggplant-purple. Between some of these blocks, the orange-brown material under the paint shows through, dividing the different sections. To the right of center, one tall, light green rectangle rises above the rest, with a pointed white…
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Village at the Water's Edge

painter Roger de La Fresnaye (French, 1885 - 1925)

1910

Medium
oil on wood
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 17.8 x 24.9 cm (7 x 9 13/16 in.) ; framed: 22.5 x 30.8 x 2.5 cm (8 7/8 x 12 1/8 x 1 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CMC
Credit line
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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