Title: "I had a dream the other day. I had written a beautiful book, a wonderful book, which you had illustrated with beautiful, wonderful pictures. Both of our names shone in letters of gold on the first page and, inseparable to this fraternity of genius,
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- "I had a dream the other day. I had written a
beautiful book, a wonderful book, which you had
illustrated with beautiful, wonderful pictures.
Both of our names shone in letters of gold on the
first page and, inseparable to this fraternity of
genius, passed on to posterity." - Letter to Paul Cézanne from Emile Zola
- From Paris, early 1860s
2Paul Cézanne (French, 1839-1906), photo-portrait,
1861 (year of first stay in Paris)
The Master of Aix
3(left) Paul Cézanne, Self Portrait, 1878-80.
Compare with (right) Pablo Picasso, Portrait of
Vollard, 1910 (Analytic Cubism)What forces our
interest is Cézannes Anxiety. Thats Cézannes
lesson.Pablo Picasso
4Paul Cézanne, Academic study Male Nude, 1862
5Paul Cézanne, Father of the Artist (Louis
Auguste), 1866
6Paul Cézanne, The Abduction, 1867
7Paul Cézanne, The Murder, 1870
8Stock, Caricature of Paul Cézanne with the two
painting rejected by the Salon jury of 1870.
Portrait of Achille Emperaire, 1867-68, oil on
canvas, 78 3/4 x 48 in. (200 x 122 cm), Musée
d'Orsay, Paris. Intentionally lacked all the
elements of charm, grace and finish so much
appreciated by the jury.
9(left) Camille Pissarro (1830-1903),
Louveciennes, 1871. Compare with(right) Paul
Cézanne, Louveciennes, 1872, 73 x 92 cm, oil on
canvas, private collection
10(left) Paul Cézanne, The Hanged Man's House,
1873, oil on canvas, 22 x 26, Musée d'Orsay,
Paris breakthrough and beginning of mature
style.(right) Pissarro, Red Roofs Auvers sur
Oise, 1877
11Cézanne, The Bay from LEstaque, 1885, 31x39,
Chicago Institute
12Cézanne, Mont Sainte-Victorire Seen from les
Lauves, 1902-6, o/c, 25 x 32
13Auguste Renoir (left), Mont Sainte-Victoire,
1889. Compare withPaul Cézanne, Mont
Sainte-Victoire, 1889. The artists painted
together.
14Paul Cézanne, Still Life with Basket of Apples,
1890-95, oil on canvas 24 x 31, The Art
Institute of Chicago
15Cézanne, Large Bathers, 1906 (the year he died,
unfinished), o/c, 610 x 82, Philadelphia MA
Nicolas Poussin, Mars and Venus, o/c, 1626
16Paul Cézanne, Three Bathers, 1879-82, owned by
Henri Matisse(right) Henri Matisse, Joie de
Vivre, 1906 (Fauvism)
17Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles dAvigon, 1907 (8
tall) Post-lapsarianPaul Cézanne, Large Bathers,
1906 (610 tall) Pre-lapsarian
18Georges Seurat (French, 1859-1891 31
years)Neo-Impressionism (Divisionism,
Pointillism, Scientific Impressionism,
Chromo-luminism)Overheard at a
Neo-Impressionist exhibition in 1894 Its
done mechanically? No, Monsieur, by hand.
The Eiffel Tower, 1889, 9 ½ X 6, Fine Arts
Museums, San Francisco
19Georges Seurat, Academic Study, c. 1875-1879,
chalk drawingSeurat, Embroidery The Artists
Mother, 1882-83, conté crayon on ingres paper 12
x 9
20Georges Seurat, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island
of la Grande Jatte, 1884-86, o/c6 9 x 10 Art
Institute of Chicago. Artist was 25 years old
21Detail of La Grande Jatte (dog next to monkey)
showing Pointillist technique
22Georges Seurat, Child in White, and Couple,
preparatory drawings for La Grande Jatte,1884
23Seurat, oil studies for La Grande Jatte
24Seurat, La Grande Jatte compared with Puvis de
Chavannes, The Sacred Grove, 1886, 181 x 419
25La Grande Jatte compared with Pierro Della
Francesca, The True Cross, 1466, early
Renaissance Fresco
26Paul Signac (French 1863-1935),
Neo-ImpressionismAgainst the Enamel of a
Background Rhythmic with Beats and Angles, Tones
and Tints Portrait of M. Félix Fénéon in 1890,
1890, o/c, 29 x 36
27Paul Signac, The Gulf of Sainte Tropez,
1892compared with Henri Matisse, Luxe, Calme, et
Volupté, 1904Signac and Matisse painted side by
side in Sainte Tropez