Artist Study: Paul Cezanne
Class Contributor: Jenn Stec, Overstone Cooperative School, Lexington, KY

Artist
Paul Cezanne
Birth: January 19, 1839, Aix-en-Provence, France
Death: October 22, 1906, Aix-en-Provence, France
Period of Art: Post-Impressionism, Romanticism, Cubism, Impressionism
Contemporaries/Events on the timeline: Dubois, Degas
Living Books Recommended
Paul Cezanne (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) by Mike Venezia
Cezanne and the Apple Boy by Laurence Anholt
A Child's History of Art: Painting by V.M. Hillyer
Online Biographies
Met Museum Biography
WikiArt Visual Art Encyclopedia (this site sorts his works by Period)
Biography.com
How to do a Picture Study in a Home or Group Setting
Paul Cezanne
Birth: January 19, 1839, Aix-en-Provence, France
Death: October 22, 1906, Aix-en-Provence, France
Period of Art: Post-Impressionism, Romanticism, Cubism, Impressionism
Contemporaries/Events on the timeline: Dubois, Degas
Living Books Recommended
Paul Cezanne (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) by Mike Venezia
Cezanne and the Apple Boy by Laurence Anholt
A Child's History of Art: Painting by V.M. Hillyer
Online Biographies
Met Museum Biography
WikiArt Visual Art Encyclopedia (this site sorts his works by Period)
Biography.com
How to do a Picture Study in a Home or Group Setting
Suggestions for Study
- The Artist's Father, Reading "L'Événement", 1866 (on view at the NGA, link includes background of painting)
- House of Père Lacroix, 1873, (on view at the NGA, link includes background of painting)
- Flowers in a Rococo Vase, c. 1876, (on view at the NGA, link includes background of painting)
- Boy in a Red Waistcoat, 1888-1890, (on view at the NGA, link includes background of painting). One version of this painting that hung in a Swiss museum was stolen. Then it was found. Interesting stories!
- Château Noir, 1900-1904, (on view at the NGA, link includes background of painting)
- Still Life with Apples and Peaches, 1905, (on view at the NGA, link includes background of painting)
- Girl at the Piano, 1869
- Still Life with Apples, 1898 (on view at the MoMA, MoMA background of painting, SmartHistory video on background of painting)
- The Basket of Apples, (SmartHistory video on background of painting)
- Turning Road at Montgeroult, 1899 (excellent example of cubism, on view at the MoMA, SmartHistory video on background of painting)