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OCR: ts highest the sea looks almost black and seems to be asleep between two headlands of rock, all white with warm touches of yellow and brown. Pine trees appear like green stains on the red earth. It is a vast picture, like a glimpse of a corner of the Far East appearing against the jarring glare of daylight.' The Bay of Marseilles, Seen from L'Estaque (c. 1878-1879) was the first of Cezanne's paintings to be included in a French national collection, when it was part of the Caillebotte Bequest in 1894. In 1881-1885 a factory was established in the Rio Valley to exploit the minerals of the Rio-Tinto, and this seems to coincide with Cezanne's departure. He was disgusted by the disfiguring industrial development. Unlike the Impressionists, who were interested in modernity, he included factory c ...