dance ii henri matisse 1During his stays in Italy, Nicolas de Stal became interested in the landscapes of the south, which he approached through an extreme simplification of forms. Agrigento offered him a motif based on the superimposition of hills and the clarity of the Mediterranean soil. He did not seek to represent a specific site, but rather to organise the surface of the painting using coloured planes, working on the relationship between the earth, the horizon and the