Paul CEZANNE
French 1839-1906
The uphill road
1881
oil on canvas
58.9 x 71.6 cm
Felton Bequest 1938
543-4

The uphill Road Cezanne painted The Uphill Road in May 1881 when he was staying with Pissarro at Pontoise. It is not the picturesque elements of the village that attracted his interest but rather the exploration of the geometric relationship between buildings and landscape. The painting, which belongs to a transitional period in Cezanne's work, remained, like many of his paintings, unfinished.