Landscape in southern France with trees and hills

1917

At this time Beer exhibits mostly neo- or postimpressionist pieces in Sweden, not in Paris though. In 1916 he shows part of his production at the famous Valand gallery in Gothenburg. The year after he meets Paul Signac in Paris, shows the master his recent works and receives some flattering encouragements: “Technically, it is difficult to do more than what you already achieve”, Signac told him. This big landscape picture (77 x 59 cm), an oil on canvas which oddly enough is not signed, seems to be a continuation of Cézanne’s studies at Mont Sainte Victoire, with its come-hither effects.