Andre Derain’s piece titled The Turning Road L’Estaque, symbolizes the small French township of L’Estaque. The piece was made in 1906 as a depiction of the earlier painting of the French town by Paul Cezanne. This painting’s present location is in the Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts in the Beck Collection; its original location is in France. The piece is oil on canvas, and it can only be viewed from the front because its hanging on a wall. The style of the piece is Fauves; Fauvist use bright colors in their purest and strongest states, which is very graphic in this particular piece. The title of the painting comes from the curving road that passes through the painting. The use of fauvism and the rareness of the painting made this art work a very
