Pont de Charing Cross

c. 1906

Oil on canvas, 81 × 100 cm. Musée d'Orsay, Paris (French State; assigned to the Orsay in 1986)

A London embankment curves past pink trees toward the bridge, under a yellow sky with towers rising on the far bank.

He painted this bridge more than once; another version, dated 1906, is in the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Look at the river: a yellow surface broken by flecks of blue and green, not gray water.
Flat, curving bands of green and pink make the road and pavement, edged in dark blue.
Warm yellows and pinks are played against cool blues and greens across the canvas. These contrasts, more than London's own light, set the mood and hold the design together.
The dealer Ambroise Vollard once owned it; it was given to the French state in 1973.

Image: Wikimedia Commons · PD-old-70