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Paul Cézanne French, 1839 - 1906 House of Père Lacroix, 1873 oil on canvas, .613 x .506 m Chester Dale Collection 1963.10.102  |
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When Cézanne first arrived in Paris, his pigments were dark and heavy, often applied with a palette knife. In later years he remembered that it was Pissarro who had brightened his palette and told him "Never paint except with the three primary colors." The bright hues and quickly worked brushstrokes reveal the effect of Pissarro's influence. Greens and yellows contrast in the foreground, and multihued vertical drags of the brush recreate watery reflections. Cool shadows contrast with the orange of a tiled roof. Light emphasizes the blond planes of the building, which is shaded with blues, greens, and mauves, and where broad strokes and heavier paint convey texture. The elaborate signature and date are unusual in Cézanne's work. Perhaps he intended the picture for public exhibition -- at the urging of Pissarro, three of his paintings were included in the first impressionist show -- or for a patron. In 1873 Cézanne moved to the village of Auvers, where this was painted. It was near Pissarro's home, and the two of them often worked side by side during 1873 and 1874. Auvers was also home to Dr. Gachet, a collector who would later care for the despairing Van Gogh. Cézanne may have hoped Gachet would purchase his work, which was ignored by the public. Cézanne returned to Provence and, after inheriting his father's large estate in 1886, largely abandoned efforts to promote his work. He did not realize commercial success until he was in his fifties. In 1886 Cézanne inherited about 400,000 francs after his father's death, which made him financially independent, indeed affluent. Only a few months before he had married Hortense Fiquet, by whom he already had a 14-year-old son; Cézanne had concealed both from his father for fear of having his allowance (a man in his forties!) cut. He was unable to live on the proceeds of his art, but now he was his own man. On the rare occasions when he had exhibited in Paris he had reaped only ridicule. A few of his paintings remained on show in Père Tanguy's famous back rooms. Young painters who saw them there were not quite sure if the artist was even still alive despite the fact that every year till 1899 Cézanne spent some time in Paris, painting, studying old paintings and sculptures in the Louvre, and drawing copies of them. Mainly he lived at Aix, where the provincial eye saw him as an odd-man-out and a failure. An irascible man, mistrustful even of his friends, he became increasingly wary of contact with people. Even his wife, who did not understand his art, became a stranger to him. For all this, Cézanne would have liked to lead a conventional middle-class life.On 15 October of 1906 when he was working out of doors near Aix, he was caught in a very powerful thunderstorm; he collapsed and was carried home where pneumonia was soon diagnosed and on 22 October, aged 67, he died in his house at Les Lauves, overlooking his beloved Mont St Victoire which was to become one of the most important motifs of early twentieth century art. Source: Impressionism Art, Volume 1,; Edited by Ingo Walther,; Benedikt Taschen |