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Paul Cezanne, artist
French, 1839 - 1906
Tete de Femme, 1873
Etching
13.2 x 10.6 cm (image)
Anonymous Bequest 1982.1.10

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Artist Biography: Born in Aix-en-Provence on January 19, 1839. Died there in 1906.~~Born in Aix-en-Provence on 19 January 1839, Cezanne was groomed from an early age to assume his father's position at the family bank. Rejecting both a financial career and the legal studies he pursued at university, however, he left the south of France in 1861 to join his longtime friend Emile Zola in Paris and to launch his artistic training. He failed the entrance examination for the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, but he frequented classes at the Academie Suisse and came to know artists in the impressionist circle such as Camille Pissarro and Claude Monet. Cezanne's early paintings, worked in a dark and foreboding style and dominated by sexually charged images of death and violence, received hostile critical reaction. He contributed in 1863 to the Salon des Refuses and, in 1874, to the first impressionist exhibition, where he sold House of the Hanged Man (Paris, Musee d'Orsay). Under the guidance of Pissarro, his early work gave way to an impressionist phase, but he quickly developed his signature style based on a blend of intense observation and architectonic compositional relationships that proved highly influential for twentieth-century formalist art. Cezanne divided his time between Paris and Provence but settled permanently in Aix in 1899. A large exhibition organized by Vollard in 1895 and a posthumous retrospective in 1907 brought belated recognition.

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