Painted in 1976, when Feininger was sixty-six years old and at the full height of his mature work, Mentone is a luminous meditation on harbor life rendered in the semi-abstract prismatic language the artist had made entirely his own. The subject is Menton, the sun-drenched port town on the French Riviera near the Italian border — a place of blazing light, dense architecture, and working boats that clearly captivated the artist’s lifelong fascination with maritime subjects.