# Afternoon at Pardigon [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CROSS, Henri-Edmond]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 81 x 65 cm ## Commentary This landscape painting has a very much more representational and colourful quality than the Iles d'Or. For Cross it is an important picture because he created a companion-piece for it, showing approximately the same section but extended by one figure and with its theme as the evening sun instead of the midday light. There is a distinct three-dimensional gradation leading from the pine on the hill to the group of trees situated further back and over the sea to the chain of hills. The dissolving of a southern landscape into intensive dabs of colour reveals here the close relationship between Neo-Impressionism and Fauvism, in whose emergence this painting played an important part. ## Related artworks - [Beach on the Mediterranean]() - [Cypresses at Cagnes]() - [Evening Air]() - [The Church of Santa Maria degli Angeli near Assisi]() - [The Clearing]() - [The Golden Isles \(Les Iles d'Or\)]() - [Undergrowth]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()