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Cézanne

By Nathalia Brodskaya

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Since his death 100 years ago, Cézanne has become the most famous painter of the nineteenth century. He was born in Aix-en-Provence in 1839 and the happiest period of his life was his early youth in Provence, in company with Emile Zolá, another Italian. Following Zolá’s example, Cézanne went to Paris in his twenty-first year. During the Franco-Prussian war he deserted the military, dividing his time between open-air painting and the studio. He said to Vollard, an art dealer, “I’m only a painter. Parisian wit gives me a pain. Painting nudes on the banks of the Arc [a river near Aix] is all I could ask for.” Encouraged by Renoir, one of the first to appreciate him, he exhibited with the impressionists in 1874 and in 1877. He was received with derision, which deeply hurt him. Cézanne’s ambition, in his own words, was “to make out of Impressionism something as solid and durable as the paintings of the museums.” His aim was to achieve the monumental in a modern language of glowing, vibrating tones. Cézanne wanted to retain the natural colour of an object and to harmonise it with the various influences of light and shade trying to destroy it; to work out a scale of tones expressing the mass and character of the form. Cézanne loved to paint fruit because it afforded him obedient models and he was a slow worker. He did not intend to simply copy an apple. He kept the dominant colour and the character of the fruit, but heightened the emotional appeal of the form by a scheme of rich and concordant tones. In his paintings of still-life he is a master. His fruit and vegetable compositions are truly dramatic; they have the weight, the nobility, the style of immortal forms. No other painter ever brought to a red apple a conviction so heated, sympathy so genuinely spiritual, or an observation so protracted. No other painter of equal ability ever reserved for still-life his strongest impulses. Cézanne restored to painting the pre-eminence of knowledge, the most essential quality to all creative effort. The death of his father in 1886 made him a rich man, but he made no change in his abstemious mode of living. Soon afterwards, Cézanne retired permanently to his estate in Provence. He was probably the loneliest of painters of his day. At times a curious melancholy attacked him, a black hopelessness. He grew more savage and exacting, destroying canvases, throwing them out of his studio into the trees, abandoning them in the fields, and giving them to his son to cut into puzzles, or to the people of Aix. At the beginning of the century, when Vollard arrived in Provence with intentions of buying on speculation all the Cézannes he could get hold of, the peasantry, hearing that a fool from Paris was actually handing out money for old linen, produced from barns a considerable number of still-lifes and landscapes. The old master of Aix was overcome with joy, but recognition came too late. In 1906 he died from a fever contracted while painting in a downpour of rain.

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Length1 hr 11 mins

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1Introduction

63Self-Portrait with Palette

2Portrait of the Artist

64Trees and House

3Chronology

65Village in Provence

4The Four Seasons

66The Great Bather

5Two Women and Child in an Interior

67Tall Trees in Jas de Bouffan

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6Uncle Dominic as a Monk

68Path of Chestnut Trees in Jas de Bouffan in the Winter

7Man in a Cotton Hat

69Gardanne

8Bread and Eggs

70Trees in a Park (The Jas de Bouffan)

9The Strove in the Studio

71The Jas de Bouffan (detail)

10Portrait of the Artist’s Father

72House and Farm in Jas de Bouffan

11The Abduction

73The Aqueduct

12The Black Scipion

74The Great Pine (Mont Sainte-Victoire)

13The Temptation of Saint Anthony

75Blue Vase

14Murder

76The Banks of the Marne (Villa on the Bank of a River)

15Girl at the Piano (Overture to “Tannhäuser”)

77The Banks of the Marne

16The Madeleine or Sorrow

78Pierrot and Harlequin (Mardi Gras)

17Green Pot and Tin Kettle

79Study for the Painting Mardi Gras

18Luncheon on the Grass

80Peaches and Pears

19Portrait of Anthony Valabrègue

81Bridge and Pool

20Pastoral

82Still Life with Basket

21Melting Snow at l’Estaque

83Portrait of Paul Cézanne, Artist’s Son with Hat

22Trench at the Foot of Mont Sainte-Victoire

84Harlequin

23Self-Portrait with Cap

85Dish with Fruits and Drapery

24The House of Dr. Gachet in Auvers

86Bathers (Study)

25The House of the Hanged Man at Auvers

87Bathers

26A Modern Olympia

88Man Smoking a Pipe

27Flowers in a little Delft Vase

89The Smoker

28Flowers in a Blue Vase

90The House in Bellevue

29Portrait of the Artist

91Woman with a Coffee Pot

30The Buffet

92Still Life with Bottles and Apples

31Trees in a Park

93Bathers

32Auvers, Panoramic View

94Millstone

33Path in Jas de Bouffan

95Rocks in the Woods

34Bathers

96Pitcher and Fruits

35Self-Portrait with a Pink Background

97A Bottle of Peppermint

36Afternoon in Naples (Rum Punch)

98View of the Château Noir

37Five Bathers

99Still Life with Curtain

38Three Bathers

100Man Smoking a Pipe

39Road at Pontoise (Clos des Mathurins)

101Apples and Oranges

40Madame Cézanne in a Red Armchair (Madame Cézanne in a Striped Skirt)

102The Old Woman with a Rosary

41The Eternal Female

103Great Pine near Aix

42Still Life with a Soup Tureen

104The Lake at Annecy

43Self-Portrait

105Mont Sainte-Victoire

44Bay of Marseille from l’Estaque

106Mont Sainte-Victoire, View from Bibémus

45Fruit

107In the Park of the Château Noir

46Bridge in Maincy near Melun

108Bibémus Quarry

47Fruits

109In the Park of the Château Noir

48Still Life with Dish, Glass and Apples

110The Château Noir

49Court of a Farm in Auvers

111Flowers (Study)

50Apples and Biscuits

112Mont Sainte-Victoire

51Pitcher, Fruits and Tablecloth

113Bathers

52Dish of Apples

114Woman in Blue

53Self-Portrait

115The Great Bathers

54Landscape in Provence

116Mont Sainte-Victoire, View from Lauves

55Bassin in Jas de Bouffan

117Mont Sainte-Victoire

56Self-Portrait in a White Hat

118Three Skulls

57Plain by Mont Sainte-Victoire

119The Blue Landscape

58Mont Sainte-Victoire, View from Bellevue

120Mont Sainte-Victoire, View from Lauves

59Vase of Flowers on a Table

121Landscape at Aix (Mont Sainte-Victoire)

60Portrait of Madame Cézanne

122Landscape at Aix (Mont Sainte-Victoire)

61Bathers in Front of a Tent

123Portrait of Vallier

62Still Life with a Chest of Drawers

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