Probably painted in the surroundings of Fontanay, Landscape is one of the very rare works, to date identified and preserved, produced in Paris, and constitutes, together with Autosmorfia, pastel of November 1900, and the evocative Night scene and The Paris fair, oils attributable to the same time span, a fundamental document of Balla's first production. Appeared at a French auction in 2007 under the title Bosco, the Landscape painting testifies to the artist's unconditional love for sublime nature and its chromatic tones express an ideal of - simplicity - the basis of beauty. The small canvas frames a patch of vegetation, in which a perspective of bare trees emerges from the ground dotted with pinkish leaves; absolute protagonist of the scene, the autumn undergrowth is solved with Balla's free and highly personal divisionism, soon led to completely autonomous results, transformed into a precious tool for obtaining movement and light.