Paul Cézanne ​(1839​–1906)

Paul Cézanne was born in Aix-en-Provence in 1839 and also died there in 1906. In his twenties and thirties Cézanne spend considerable time living in Paris, where he developed a friendship with Camille Pissarro. The father of Paul Cézanne was a banker and financially supported him during his life, such that Paul could focus completely on his art. He worked initially in the Impressionist style, but later developed more abstract paintings. Picasso and Matisse were heavily influenced by this later work of Cézanne and considered him to be ‘the father of us all’.

This site contains a detailed discussion of the different periods in Cézanne's landscape painting:

• Period I: The Dark Period, 1861-1870, Also known as the “couillarde” period.
• Period II: The Impressionist Period, 1870-1878.
• Period III: The Mature Period, 1878-1890, also known as the Constructive Period.
• Period IV: The Final Period, 1890-1906, also known as the Synthetic or Syntheses Period.​

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Blogs about Works of Cézanne

Gardanne (c. 1885)

Landscape, Road with Trees in Rocky Mountains (1870-1871)

The Basket of Apples (c. 1893)

The Hanged Man's House, Auvers-sur-Oise (1873)

The Lac d'Annecy (1896)

The Large Bathers (1898-1905)

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