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

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Paul Cézanne The Gardener Vallier

c.1906

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Paul Cézanne Montagne Sainte Victoire

1905–6

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Paul Cézanne The Avenue at the Jas de Bouffan

c.1874–5

T01074

Paul Cézanne The Large Bathers

c.1898

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Paul Cézanne The Grounds of the Château Noir

c.1900–6

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Artist as subject

William Roberts No! No! Cézanne never used it

c.1934

View by appointment T12724

William Roberts Distinguished Visitors at the Tate

1965

View by appointment T12740

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

[1948]

TGA 8225/3/1/5

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

[1948]

TGA 8225/3/2/1

Bernard Meninsky Notebook

date not known

TGA 8225/3/5

Julian Trevelyan Scrapbook

1938–40

View by appointment TGA 898/1/3

Graham Sutherland OM Sketchbook 29

1958–62

TGA 812/29

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

[7 June 1919]

TGA 8010/5/1188

Kenneth Armitage, recipient: Joan Augusta Monro Moore Letter from Kenneth Armitage to Joan Moore, addressed Corsham

[c.1951]

View by appointment TGA 9920/2/184

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Features

Art Term

Formalism

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Post-impressionism

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Claude Monet, ‘Woman Seated on a Bench’ c.1874

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Complementary colours

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Pablo Picasso, ‘Bowl of Fruit, Violin and Bottle’ 1914

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Cubism

Cubism was a revolutionary new approach to representing reality invented in around 1907–08 by artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque ...

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Still life

One of the principal genres (subject types) of Western art – essentially, the subject matter of a still life painting ...

Femme d'Alger 1963 Oil on canvas The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Cllection, Los Angeles © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein/DACS 2012

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