FRENCH LANGUAGE
Paul Cézanne made painting the sole concern of his life. In 1863, he exhibited at the Salon des Refusés, where Manet's The Luncheon on the Grass caused a scandal. He soon became friends with the Impressionists and in 1874 showed his House of the Hanged Man at Nadar's, which was next to Claude Monet's Impression Soleil Levant.
But soon, while he multiplied his stays in Aix and Estaque, in the light of the South, his work took a more personal turn: the flattening of the planes seemed to give birth to a new space. Then came the series, the Sainte Victoire, the Bathers. In 1885, a young dealer, Ambroise Vollard, presented Cézanne's first solo exhibition. This was his moment of glory. Clearly dissociating colors and drawing, Cézanne opened up to modernity.
But the motif remained the necessary source, and the painter returned to it until the last moments.
Michel Hoog, a specialist of the period, invites us to rediscover this powerful and solitary work.
French language
176 pages
Gallimard / Rmn - Grand Palais
Collection Découvertes Gallimard (n° 55), Série Arts
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