Dimensions: 65 x 76 cm 

French artist born in Paris, he is the nephew of the painter Julien Le Blant. Self-taught artist, Maurice is known throughout the history of the little masters for having contributed to the Cubist adventure. He frequents Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris and George Braque at the Bateau Lavoir. He studied medicine at the same time as he painted. Friend of the painter Jean Buhot, he favors my painting over a medical career. He worked in Belgium and Holland, took a studio in Montmartre in 1912, exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants in 1914. The painter died in the war, following his enlistment as an auxiliary doctor. Although her career is meteoric, it is none the less brilliant. His untimely death does not overshadow the laudatory criticism that is made of his art.

Maurice Esmein is initiated into the cubism of the masters; he tackles analytical cubism. From his restricted chromatic palette, he paints the impression of the city through the prism of shattering and recomposition. The painter brings us into the picture through an element of academic art, the repoussoir figure. The trees frame the side pendants of the painting, forcing the viewer's gaze to move towards the center of the canvas. In the middle of it, trees, again. The painter uses the pictorial tradition and does not care to understand his subject: the landscape of modern life.