The work was created in 1888, a period marked by a change of style that began in Pont-Aven. Thus we find the main characteristics of this emerging technique such as flatness, the use of bright colors, the high horizon, geometric shapes and the application of paint in large areas. It represents the free view in the center of a field made up of a juxtaposition of wide horizontal bands in shades of yellow and green. This field is bordered by trees and one of them, with a round and simplified crown, stands majestically in the composition. The horizontal character of the work, however, is broken by the verticality of a few trunks. This painting, which belonged to Maurice Denis, is also called L'Arbre roux: the second title given by the Denis family, without any historical reference.

© Bernard Galeron