Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from Bibémus

C�zanne’s paintings aim at creating a permanence in the sense of timelessness, but a timelessness that also embraces solidity and flux, order and flexibility. His paintings of Mont Saint-Victoire show the mountain as the dominant motif of the landscape and the painting, a grand, monumental geological formation. Like another mountain in Provence, Mont Ventoux, Mont Sainte-Victoire has acquired an almost mythical status in the Proven�al mind.