To understand art history is to understand artists’ practices, and there’s no better way to scrutinize a great painter’s techniques than to observe the canvas directly, says John Elderfield, the Adler ...
It is a timeless Cezanne landscape: mountain shouldering into sky, rocks compressed into plain, the baked sensation of late summer. Although the French artist painted Mont Sainte-Victoire dozens of ...
The UK is fighting to keep a Paul Cézanne landscape painting in the country following its sale for £13.5 million ($20.5 million) at Christie’s London during its $222.8 million Impressionist and modern ...
JOHN HOUSE Impressionism: Paint and Politics New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. 256 pp.; 63 color ills., 117 b/w. $50.00 JOACHIM PISSARRO Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne and Pissarro, ...
It is quite astonishing to realise that a painting few people wanted to buy a little over a century ago is now worth a quarter of a billion dollars. Paul Cézanne’s The Card Players became the most ...
Paul Cézanne, “Bibémus Quarry” (1895-1900), oil on canvas; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri; gift of Henry W. and Marion H. Bloch (all images courtesy Princeton University Art ...
A painting by the French artist and post-impressionist painter Paul Cezanne is at risk of leaving the UK for the first time since 1937. Cezanne’s 1882 painting Ferme Normande, Ete (Hattenville) may ...