Mediterranean Landscape

A sun-baked landscape of the French Mediterranean coast is laid out in bold, flat zones of bright color and quick, confident line, the forms simplified almost to signs. The aging Picasso, settled in the south of France, painted with renewed freedom and joy in his late years. Now in the Albertina in Vienna, Mediterranean Landscape radiates the warmth and light of the region he loved - the rigor of his Cubist years relaxed into vivid, decorative ease, a master in old age distilling a whole sunlit coast into a few exuberant strokes and patches of color.