With its apparently improvised composition, Cemetery responds to a clear intention to study the effects of changing light and the use of colour. Its theme is a simple one, and is close to the modern conception of pursuing natural elements and landscapes without stylistic alterations. It captures beauty as it emerges, rendering the light effects through wide brushstrokes and bright colours.
 
Bausil makes use of a colourist palette, particularly noticeable in the treatment of the roof tiles, the meadows, trees and mountains, generating a chromatic vibration that connects with Impressionism and is also reminiscent of Van Gogh’s painting.
 
The work depicts the cemetery and church of a little village in Languedoc, in France. It was shown at an exhibition at Galerie Georges Petit in Paris in 1924, as confirmed by the inscription on the back.