Paul Cézanne

“What I wanted was to make of Impressionism something solid and durable, like the art of museums.” With this aim in mind Cézanne, one of the participants in the first Impressionist...

The second half of the 1880s was a particularly difficult time for Cézanne. In 1885 he appears to have had an abortive romantic entanglement, which left him agitated and unbalanced...

In 1899, Gauguin's mistress, Pahura, gave birth to a son, who gave the artist a new lease on life. After months of inaction due to poverty and ill health, Gauguin began to paint ag...

Cézanne’s very early works often exhibited a violent, sensual romanticism, and it was only after ten years of effort, in the early 1870s, that his mode of presentation became more ...

Because Paul Cézanne was virtually self-taught, his early work evinces a less predictable path of development than that of artists schooled in the academic tradition. An extreme in...

Because Paul Cézanne was virtually self-taught, his early work evinces a less predictable path of development than that of artists schooled in the academic tradition. An extreme in...