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hole in the wall, the only way to get his largest
painting, Grandes Baigneuses, out.
Cézanne was classically trained, and his
early paintings show he was a superb painter,
especially of biblical scenes, he could
certainly do art the accepted way in those
days – but that wasn’t his way. For him it was
about harmony in shapes, texture and colour.
He was obsessed with painting the nature
of Provence and Mont Sainte-Victoire, the
mountain that dominates the landscape of
Aix, and he obsessively organised objects for
his still life paintings.
His art wasn’t always appreciated. When
Cézanne exhibited two paintings at the first
Impressionist Exhibition in 1874, a critic wrote
that he was “a bit of a madman, afflicted with
painting delirium tremens…” It wasn’t until the
last ten years of his life that his work began
to be appreciated, and he would certainly be
shocked to find that one of his paintings of
Mont Saint-Victoire sold in New York for $138
million in 2022.
By all accounts he was a difficult man. Emile
Zola his friend since childhood, said of him
that though he had the makings of a great
painter “he will never have the genius to
become one. The least obstacle makes him
despair.” He painted with an intensity that was
unusual, would fly into rages, and destroy his
work. Struggling to achieve the recognition he
craved, he would tell younger painters “I am a
painter of your generation, not of mine.”
But here in the studio there is an air of peace.
You can see the objects he painted, still
grouped together, the bottles, the skulls (noone
knows who they belonged to – but they
are real), his smock and hat, brushes and
easels, just as if he were still there.
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Follow up with a tour of the Cézanne family
home in Aix, Jas de Bouffan, the Bibémus
quarries, pine forests and fields of the area
that provided inspiration for his art. Book tours
at Aix-en-Provence Tourist Office.
At the Musée Granet you can see several
original works of Cézanne.
Cézanne died at his apartment in rue
Boulegon on October 23, 1906, from pleurisy
said to be brought on by painting outside in
at storm. Visit his final resting place in Saint-
Pierre Cemetery.
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