This painting, full of luminous vibrations, represents the garden of the artist’s country house in Villeneuve-le-Comte. On the right, we can see the typical silhouette of its large blue cedar tree, so often painted.

The landscape is mostly painted in cold, dark strokes, but in the centre of the canvas, in a gap of light symbolised by a horizontal streak of bright yellow, an orange chaise longue, white and pink linen drying on a line and the flowering branches of a light green tree burst out.

A gardener with a wheelbarrow animates the landscape in front of the horizontal wall covered with orange tiles at the back of the garden. A dark mauve sky hints at the coming storm.

Underlined by the use of an orange colour that is violently complementary to the surrounding blue touches, the opposition of light and shadow constitutes the subject of the work, with verticals and horizontals to help our gaze escape the central luminous “black hole”. All around, the cold colours transform the circulation of our gaze into a hypnotic spiral of pictorial fireworks.