Published on the centenary of the death of Paul Cézanne (18391906), this stunning book celebrates the artist’s depictions of his native Provence. While Cézanne is recognized as one of the fathers of the modern movement, this publication focuses on his own sense of achievement, especially as a painter exploring the landscape in and around his hometown of Aix-en- Provence. Although he spent time elsewhere in France, especially Paris, Cézanne repeatedly returned to Provence, where he lived nearly all of the last twenty years of his life.In studios at the Jas de Bouffan and at Les Lauves, and on painting expeditions into the surrounding countryside, Cézanne created some of his most original and compelling works, not only landscapes but also portraits of local characters, friends, and family; still lifes, and imaginative figure paintings, such as the monumental bathers painted in the last decade of his life.Beautifully illustrated with some 160 paintings and watercolors, Cézanne in Provence offers fascinating insights into a true genius in the history of art and his beloved native countryside.

Cézanne in Provence

Arts & Photography

Conisbee, Philip

Coutagne, Denis

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

In his brief text, Denis Coutagne considers Cezanne for the enigma he and his art may always remain, but within the most elucidating of all possible contexts: Provence, especially around Aix, where Cezanne was born in 1839 and where he died in 1906, virtually "with brush in hand." This was the richly colored, sun-drenched environment in which Cezanne grew up with his closest friend, the novelist Emile Zola, conceived his passion for painting, developed his unique aesthetic, and painted his late and greatest masterpieces - the paintings devoted to such local motifs as the Jas de Bouffan, the Chateau-Noir, the Bibemus quarry, the nude bathers, L'Estaque, and Mont Sainte-Victoire. No other place could provide the dramatic contrasts of light and dark, color and chiaroscuro that were so at one with the brooding soul and luminous vision of Paul Cezanne, or so consistent with his attempts to produce an art of clarity and calm by bringing into dynamic equilibrium a host of warring opposites: wild nature and orderly form, the momentary and the immutable, color and line, surface and depth, density and transparency, awkwardness and grace, and, not least, his own personal conflicts, among them a conservative, Provencal background and unruly, bohemian tendencies.

Cezanne In Provence (The Universe of Art)

Individual Artists

Universe

Paul Cézanne peint : 1839-1906, Aix-en-Provence

Literature & Fiction

Manser, Nory

Genre Fiction

Editions Cres

Paul Cézanne in Paris

Paul Cézanne Society

Cezanne in Provence

So deep was the link between painter Paul Cézanne and Provence, National Gallery of Art curator Conisbee surmises, that the red pigment in Cézanne's paints came directly from the marne rouge, the region's red soil. In this volume, which accompanies an exhibition of the same name, Conisbee, Musée de Granet director Coutagne and others explore the painter's relationship with the region in exhaustive detail, offering insight into his methods and motivations. Cézanne eschewed scenes of the region's modernization for scenes of classical evocation and timelessness, and his choice to paint en pleine air was inspired not just by his mentor, the Impressionist Camille Pisarro, but also by an intense desire for isolation. "Isolation, that's what I deserve." he wrote. "At least that way, no one can get their hooks into me." His sojourns in the fishing village L'Estaque marked a turning point-as did his father's death, which freed the artist from the burdens of paternal disapproval. The plates and illustrations offer a remarkable overview of the various Provencal locales Cézanne repeatedly painted: Mount Saint-Victoire, L'Estaque, his father's home (the Jas de Bouffan) and additional sites in the region, allowing the reader to chart Cézanne's development of a technique that "makes it seem as though the paint itself is radiating light." A stellar record of the painter's life and work, this book is a must-have for art enthusiasts. 170 pages of color plates, 145 color and 30 black and white photographs.

Cezanne In Provence

Assouline Publishing

Cezanne en Provence (Memoire de l'art) (French Edition) (Mémoire de l'art)

Reference

Catalogs & Directories

Editions Assouline

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