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ABOUT THE WORK

To Juvenal Sanso belong famously astringent melancholy paintings of landscapes devoid of “human associations”. The appeal of this work by Sanso lies in the juxtaposition of inorganic and organic, liquid and solid, mobile and stationary, each accentuating the other as Leonardo also used light and shade dichotomies. Sanso’s themes evolved from temperate Brittany seascapes and landscapes to the piles of stone walls amid the tropical flora in Montalban. Time and again he painted a series of similar works at this time which are devoid of human interest.