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Houses at l'Estaque
Houses at l'Estaque (French: "Maisons à l'Estaque", or "Maisons et arbre") is a 1908 oil painting by Georges Braque. It is considered either an important Proto-Cubist landscape or the first Cubist landscape. The painting prompted art critic Louis Vauxcelles to mock it as being composed of cubes which led to the name of the movement.
It is a response to works by Paul Cézanne who also lived in L'Estaque at times.
History.
This painting by Braque was refused
Marquet, Rouault and Matisse rejected Braque's entire submission. Guérin and Marquet elected to keep two in play. Braque withdrew the two in protest, placing the blame on Matisse.
"Houses at l'Estaque" is a Proto-Cubist painting consisting both of Cézannian trees and houses depicted in the absence of any unifying perspective. Houses in the background do, however, appear smaller than those of the foreground, consistent with classical perspective. Following the rejection of Braque's paintings, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler offers the artist a one