Cézanne

Post-Impressionism, proto-Cubism

The father of modern art. Where the Impressionists dissolved form into light, Cézanne rebuilt it — 'treating nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone.' His Mont Sainte-Victoire paintings pointed directly to Cubism.

Key works

• Mont Sainte-Victoire series1882–1906— Landscape as geometric structure
  Various — Philadelphia Museum of Art; Courtauld Gallery, London; others
• The Card Players~1893— Monumental stillness
  Various — Musee d'Orsay, Paris; Metropolitan Museum, New York; Courtauld, London; Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia

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