Paul Cézanne

1839–1906

Biography

Paul Cézanne (US: or UK: ; French: [pɔl sezan]; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cézanne's often repetitive, exploratory brushstrokes are highly characteristic and clearly recognizable. He used planes of colour and small brushstrokes that build up to form complex fields. The paintings convey Cézanne's intense study of his subjects.

Cézanne is said to have formed the bridge between late 19th-century Impressionism and the early 20th century's new line of artistic enquiry, Cubism. Both Matisse and Picasso are said to have remarked that Cézanne "is the father of us all."

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Artworks

Paul Cézanne Still Life with Water Jug

c.1892–3

Paul Cézanne The Gardener Vallier

c.1906

Paul Cézanne Montagne Sainte Victoire

1905–6

Paul Cézanne The Avenue at the Jas de Bouffan

c.1874–5

Paul Cézanne The Large Bathers

c.1898

Artist as subject

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William Roberts No! No! Cézanne never used it

c.1934

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William Roberts Distinguished Visitors at the Tate

1965

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Bernard Meninsky Notebook

date not known

Bernard Meninsky Slide plans for Meninsky’s talk at the Arts Council

[1948]

Bernard Meninsky Manuscript of Meninsky’s article ‘The appreciation of drawing’

[1948]

Graham Sutherland OM Sketchbook 29

1958–62

Duncan Grant, recipient: Vanessa Bell Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell [possibly at Charleston]

[7 June 1919]

Julian Trevelyan Scrapbook

1938–40

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Bernard Meninsky Typescript entitled ‘THE ART OF DRAWING by BERNARD MENINSKY. 2nd Lecture’

[1948]

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