Paul Cézanne
French, 1839–1906
Born in Aix-en-Provence; died in Aix-en-Provence.
Cézanne divided his life between Paris and his native Aix-en-Provence. Encouraged by his schoolfriend Émile Zola and later by Pissarro, with whom he painted at Pontoise and Auvers in the 1870s, he showed at the first and third Impressionist exhibitions. He then withdrew to Provence and worked towards a more structured art, building form from patches of colour in still lifes, bathers and repeated views of Mont Sainte-Victoire. Younger painters, Picasso and Braque among them, saw him as a founder of modern painting.
Written by Ochre Editions.
- In the collection
- 13 worksDated 1873–1909
- Mostly
- Paintings, Drawing and Watercolor, Drawings
- Movement
- Post-ImpressionismArtists who kept Impressionism's colour but pushed towards structure, symbol and feeling.
The works
