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

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Suggestions for Study

1. The Artist's Father, Reading "L'Événement", 1866 (on view at the NGA, link includes background of painting)
   
2. House of Père Lacroix, 1873, (on view at the NGA, link includes background of painting)
   
3. Flowers in a Rococo Vase, c. 1876, (on view at the NGA, link includes background of painting)
4. 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!
5. Château Noir, 1900-1904, (on view at the NGA, link includes background of painting)
   
6. Still Life with Apples and Peaches, 1905, (on view at the NGA, link includes background of painting)
7. Girl at the Piano, 1869
8. Still Life with Apples, 1898 (on view at the MoMA, MoMA background of painting, SmartHistory video on background of painting) 
9. The Basket of Apples, (SmartHistory video on background of painting)
10. Turning Road at Montgeroult, 1899 (excellent example of cubism, on view at the MoMA, SmartHistory video on background of painting)