Signed Provençal Landscape, Olive Trees and Mountain, Oil, French School c.1910

A Provençal landscape, oil, of a dusty path through scrubland with gnarled olive trees in the foreground and a rocky mountain peak beyond, worked in broken plein-air brushwork and a Mediterranean palette of ochre, sage, dusty rose, and cerulean. The handling sits in the early-20th-century southern-French landscape tradition that followed Cézanne's Provence through a generation of regional painters. It is signed lower right, read as "G. Fauly"; the name does not resolve to a documented artist, so the attribution rests on the signature as read, not on an identified hand. The subject, palette, and brushwork place it in the French School of roughly 1900–1930. Oil, 8.5 x 10.5 in., unframed.