CAGNES SUR MER

American artist Andrée Ruellan is best known for her paintings of modern life, which focus on quotidian scenes of children, laborers, and urban landscapes. During the 1920s, Ruellan and her mother travelled across Europe before eventually settling in Paris for several years. It was there that Ruellan's work adopted a distinctly modernist style, characterized by looser, more expressive linework. CAGNES SUR MER exemplifies this shift, depicting the architecture of the eponymous French Riviera town through simplified forms and a shallow depth of field. In 1929, Ruellan returned to the United States and settled near the Woodstock Artist's Colony in New York, where she lived until her passing in 2006.