André Evard’s “White Mountain Range in Front of a Blue Lake” (1927) depicts a calm, almost meditative landscape in clear horizontal color zones. A dark foreground with a lake leads to staggered shades of blue and black, which merge into a luminous white mountain range. Above this stretches an expansive sky with nuanced gradations. The harmonious color gradation and the strong contrast between light and dark between the mountains and their surroundings give the work a quiet monumentality. Evard reduces nature to elementary forms and large areas of color, which allows the image to float between a real landscape and an abstracting composition. It reflects his search for a timeless, universal landscape image that achieves a symbolic dimension beyond pure natural representation.