occupied almost all his life as an artist, he needed 

of a subject that he knew perfectly, sufficiently

       in any case to be able to concentrate on its

       more sensations  than on any reality

       objective. He therefore made the Montagne Sainte-

       Victory the heroine of this visual adventure. painted-

       ture after painting, year after year, he posed  

       his easel around the Provençal massif.

       But of  all these representations, none

                 looks like  really to another. By

                 that he sometimes changed his point of view,

                 but above all  because little to  little, he

                 discovered things  that he didn't have

                 understood so far.  So one day he

                 for example wrote  to have realized that

                 "the shadow of  the mountain was  convex when he believed it to be concave". A subtlety that is more subjective feeling than topography, but  that he would never have grasped without her incredible perseverance.