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Paul Cézanne
Paul Cézanne was a French Post-Impressionist painter whose work introduced new modes of representation, influenced avant-garde artistic movements of the early 20th century and formed the bridge between late 19th-century Impressionism and early 20th-century Cubism.
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culture · French painter (1839–1906) · painter · printmaker · lithographer · draftsperson · graphic artist · also Paul Cézanne, Pol Sezan, Polʹ Sezann, P. Sezanas, cezanne paul, p. cezanne
Born 19 January 1839 · Died 22 October 1906 · Q35548
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2026· 4 entries
Reported claimRated This isn’t a real report from the BBC and the clip of President Zelenskyy has been edited to include the stolen Cézanne painting. · Full Fact
Full Fact rated the claim “A video shows a BBC News report about a stolen painting by Paul Cézanne appearing in footage from Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy.” This isn’t a real report from the BBC and the clip of President Zelenskyy has been edited to include the stolen Cézanne painting..
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Reported claimRated The BBC News report is fake, and the footage from Volodymyr Zelensky's video address in which the stolen painting is allegedly visible, has been edited. In reality, a painting by a contemporary Ukrainian artist hangs in the president’s office. · StopFake
StopFake rated the claim “A Stolen Cézanne Painting Hangs in Zelensky's Office” The BBC News report is fake, and the footage from Volodymyr Zelensky's video address in which the stolen painting is allegedly visible, has been edited. In reality, a painting by a contemporary Ukrainian artist hangs in the president’s office..
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Lead Stories rated the claim “Real BBC News video report proves Zelenskyy had stolen Cézanne painting in his office.” Fake Report.
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2025· 3 entries
Indiatimes: 6 most beautiful paintings by Paul Cezanne
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Aix-en-Provence rolled out a €30 million campaign branded "Cézanne 2025," including trademarking his name, showcasing 130 works at Musée Granet, opening his studio and restored residences, and partnering globally to borr
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“Citation choisie pour le 28 juin 2025 (pour l’ouverture de l’exposition Cezanne au Jas de Bouffan au Musée Granet d’Aix-en-Provence).”
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2024· 2 entries
Indiatimes: 5 most beautiful post-impressionist paintings by Paul Cezanne
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Artnet: A Mysterious Cézanne Work Is Discovered in the Artist’s Childhood Home
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2023· 1 entry
A last minute settlement was reached between the heirs of Jacob Goldschmidt and the Museum Langmatt, a foundation founded by Dr
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2022· 2 entries
Wall Street Journal: Paul Cézanne, a Painter’s Painter
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A portrait was discovered beneath the 1865 Still Life with Bread and Eggs when the Cincinnati Art Museum's museum's chief conservator, Serena Urry, removing the painting from an exhibit in which it had been included and
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2020· 1 entry
The provenance of a Cézanne from the Buehrle collection came under scrutiny
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2019· 1 entry
Forbes: Paul Cézanne: Redux And Renewal Of His Catalogue Raisonné
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2018· 1 entry
Princeton University: Begin with the brushstroke: ‘The Art of Paul Cézanne In and Out of the Studio’
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2017· 1 entry
Hyperallergic: The Portraiture of Paul Cézanne
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2014· 1 entry
NPR: For Paul Cezanne, An Apple A Day Kept Obscurity Away
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2011· 3 entries
Search Engine Land: Google’s Paul Cézanne Logo
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To the Royal Family of Qatar for a price variously estimated at between $250 million ($357
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It was dissolved and combined with the other two universities in Aix and Marseille to form the University of Aix-Marseille
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2006· 1 entry
Two documentaries from 1995 and 2000 about Paul Cézanne and his motif La Montagne Sainte-Victoire were re-released
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2000· 2 entries
French courts ordered the seizure of Cézanne's "The sea at l'Estaque" which was part of the "From Fra Angelico to Bonnard: masterpieces from the Rau Collection" exhibition at the Musée du Luxembourg because of a claim th
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Nine paintings by Cézanne are now on display there
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1996· 1 entry
Under the title The Paintings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalog Raisonne – Review
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1995· 1 entry
“En dehors de sa Correspondance, « beaucoup de propos rapportés par des proches, critiques ou peintres, sont authentiques ou très vraisemblables », voir notamment dans Paris 1995 et Conversations 1978.”
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1994· 1 entry
Was not able to fully complete his work
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1984· 4 entries
“Quote in: Cézanne, by Ambroise Vollard, Dover publications Inc. New York, 1984, p. 27”
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“Quote in: Cezanne, by Ambroise Vollard, Dover publications Inc. New York, 1984, p. 32-33”
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“Quote in: Cézanne, by Ambroise Vollard, Dover publications Inc. New York, 1984, p. 28”
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The museum received eight paintings and some watercolours, including a motif from the Bathers series and a portrait of Mme Cézanne
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1978· 1 entry
“Repris dans Conversations 1978, p. 36-37 et cat. expo Paris 1995, p. 37-38.”
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1975· 1 entry
“Quote from Renoir – his life and work, Francois Fosca; Book Club Associates /Thames and Hudson Ltd, London 1975, p. 79”
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1973· 2 entries
And has remained the classic source for the artist's graphic work
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It was founded in Aix-en-Provence, the Paul Cézanne University with the departments of law and political science, business administration as well as natural sciences and technology
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1969· 1 entry
The studio was transferred to the city of Aix
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1949· 1 entry
That he owed the most to the art of Cézanne
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1923· 1 entry
(Le Maître Paul Cézanne) that included a chronological and annotated list of many of the painter's works
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1918· 1 entry
With ten facsimiles based on the watercolours became known to a larger group of interested parties
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1913· 1 entry
His works were exhibited at the Armory Show in New York; it was a groundbreaking exhibition of modern art and sculpture, although here too the exhibits were met with criticism and ridicule
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1910· 2 entries
Some of Cézanne's paintings were shown in the Manet and the Post-Impressionists exhibition in London (another one followed in 1912)
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Harry Graf Kessler and Rainer Maria Rilke
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1909· 1 entry
But failed due to rejection by the city of Aix-en-Provence
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1907· 1 entry
“treat nature according to cylinder, sphere and cone”
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1906· 11 entries
Died 1906-10-22.
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“Lettre à Émile Bernard, 21 septembre 1906.”
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Stimulated by a comprehensive exhibition of his watercolours in the spring of 1907 at the Galerie Bernheim-Jeune and a retrospective in October 1907 at the Salon d'Automne in Paris, a lively examination of his work began
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“You positively paint like a madman.”
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“sorted chronologically, by date of the quotes of Paul Cézanne”
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“Dos cosas tiene el pintor: vista y cerebro, ambas deben ayudarse entre sí: hay que procurar que se desarrollen mutuamente; la vista a través de la visión al natural, el cerebro a través de la lógica de las sensaciones organizadas, que da los medios de expresión.”
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“Claude Monet non è un occhio, ma [...] che occhio!”
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“El literato se expresa mediante abstracciones, mientras que el pintor concreta, a base del dibujo y el color, sus sensaciones y sus percepciones.”
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“[Riferendosi ai suoi precedenti maestri] Gli insegnanti sono tutti dei bastardi castrati e degli stronzi. Non hanno fegato.”
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“El museo del Louvre es el libro en que aprendemos a leer. Pero salgamos de allí para estudiar la bella naturaleza, tratemos de extraer su espíritu, intentemos expresarnos siguiendo nuestro temperamento personal. El tiempo y la reflexión, por otra parte, modifican poco a poco la visión, y finalmente nos llega la comprensión.”
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“L'approvazione degli altri è uno stimolante, del quale talvolta è bene diffidare.”
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1905· 3 entries
“Lettre à Émile Bernard, Aix, 1905.”
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An exhibition was held in London, in which his work was also shown; the Galerie Vollard exhibited his works in June, and the Salon d'Automne followed in turn from 19 October to 25 November with 10 paintings
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“Lettre à Émile Bernard, Aix, 23 octobre 1905.”
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1904· 5 entries
“Lettre à Bernard, Aix, 26 mai 1904, signée Pictor P. Cézanne.”
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“Lettre à Émile Bernard, Aix-en-Provence, 15 avril 1904.”
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“Lettre à sa mère, Marseille, 5 février 1904.”
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“Quote from Cézanne's letter to Émile Bernard, 23 December 1904; as quoted in Letters of the great artists – from Blake to Pollock, Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, 1963, p. 184”
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“Lettre à Émile Bernard, Aix, 12 mai 1904.”
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1903· 3 entries
Exhibited for the first time at the newly established Salon d'Automne (Paris Autumn Salon)
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“Quote from Cézanne's letter to Vollard - Aix, 9 January, 1903; as quoted in Cezanne, by Ambroise Vollard, Dover publications Inc. New York, 1984, p. 103”
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Henri Rochefort visited the auction of paintings that had been in Zola's possession and published on 9 March 1903 in L'Intransigeant a highly critical article entitled "Love for the Ugly"
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1902· 3 entries
“Daté de 1902, publié en 1911 dans Vers et Prose, XXVII, p. 109-113 [lire en ligne] et dans L'Art vivant, 2, 37, 1er juillet 1926, p. 491-493 [lire en ligne].”
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Visited Cézanne on 13 April 1906 in the hope of being able to purchase a painting by the artist
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“Quote in a conversation with Vollard in Cezanne's studio in Aix - after the death of Zola in 1902; as quoted in Cézanne, Ambroise Vollard, Dover publications Inc. New York, 1984, p. 74”
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1901· 2 entries
Cézanne acquired a piece of land north of the city of Aix-en-Provence along the Chemin des Lauves, an isolated road on some high ground, where he had his studio built on the Chemin des Lauves in 1902 according to his nee
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Maurice Denis exhibited his 1900 large painting Hommage à Cézanne in Paris and Brussels
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1897· 2 entries
A Cézanne landscape, The Mill on the Couleuvre near Pontoise, was purchased by Hugo von Tschudi for the Durand-Ruel Gallery in the Berlin National Gallery It was the second Cézanne work acquired by a museum, the first be
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“Quote in a conversation with Vollard in museum The Luxembourg, Paris 1897 - standing before the 'Olympia' of Manet; as quoted in Cézanne, by Ambroise Vollard, Dover publications Inc. New York, 1984, p. 36”
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1896· 5 entries
“Lettre à Joachim Gasquet, Aix, 30 avril 1896”
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“Quote from a conversation in Cézanne's studio in Paris, ca. 1896-98; as quoted in Cezanne, by Ambroise Vollard, Dover publications Inc. New York, 1984, p. 74”
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“Quote in a conversation with Vollard, in the studio of Cézanne, in Aix, 1896; as quoted in Cezanne, by Ambroise Vollard, Dover publications Inc. New York, 1984, p. 66”
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“Quote from a conversation with Vollard, in the studio of Cézanne, in Aix, 1896; as quoted in Cezanne, by Ambroise Vollard, Dover publications Inc. New York, 1984, p. 67”
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“Quote in a conversation with Vollard, along the river near Aix, 1896; as quoted in Cezanne, by Ambroise Vollard, Dover publications Inc. New York, 1984, p. 74”
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1895· 3 entries
Cézanne lived in Paris and increasingly in Aix without his family
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Vollard opened the first solo exhibition in his Paris gallery, which led to a broader examination of Cézanne's work
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Geffroy again led the Journal: "He is a great truth fanatic, fiery and naive, harsh and nuanced
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1894· 1 entry
When he was exhibiting a bundle of Manet in his small shop, and they exchanged Manet works for their own works with him
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1892· 1 entry
Through the paint dealer Tanguy, who had exhibited them in his shop in the Rue Clauzel in Montmartre in return for the delivery of painting utensils
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1890· 2 entries
And 1895, in which the same person is represented in different variants
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Cézanne developed diabetes; the illness made it even more difficult for him to deal with his fellow human beings
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1886· 1 entry
“remark to Vincent van Gogh, ca. 1886 in Paris. Van Gogh showed Cezanne some of his recent paintings, he recently made in Paris”
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1884· 1 entry
“Quote in Cezanne's letter to Emile Zola, 23rd February 1884; as quoted in Renoir – his life and work, Francois Fosca, Book Club Associates /Thames and Hudson Ltd, London 1975, p. 175”
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1881· 1 entry
Cézanne worked in Pontoise with Paul Gauguin and Pissarro; Cézanne returned to Aix at the end of the year
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1878· 2 entries
“Quote in Cézanne's letter to his friend Emile Zola, Aix-en-Provence, 14 April 1878; as quoted in Letters of the great artists – from Blake to Pollock"', Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, 1963, pp. 178-179”
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The urbane, successful writer had set up a luxurious summer house in Médan near Auvers, where Cézanne had visited him repeatedly in the years 1879 to 1882 and in 1885; but his friend's lavish lifestyle made Cézanne, who
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1877· 1 entry
Which in turn drew considerable criticism
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1876· 1 entry
“Quote from Cezanne's letter to Camille Pissarro, from L'Estaque 2 July 1876, taken from Alex Danchev, The Letters of Paul Cézanne, 2013; as quoted in the 'Daily Beast' online, 13 Oct. 2013”
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1875· 1 entry
Cézanne met the customs inspector and art collector Victor Chocquet, who, mediated by Renoir, bought three of his works and became his most loyal collector and whose commissions provided some financial relief
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1874· 1 entry
And in 1901 the co-founder of the Nabis group, Maurice Denis, created Hommage à Cézanne, showing Cézanne's painting Still Life with Fruit on the easel amidst artist friends at the Vollard Gallery
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1872· 2 entries
Due to financial hardship, he soon felt obliged to leave: "[…] it was necessary, otherwise I would not have escaped the fate of the others
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Cézanne accepted an invitation from his friend Pissarro to work in Pontoise in the Oise Valley
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1871· 1 entry
“Quote in Cezanne's letter to his father in Aix; ca. 1871-73; as quoted in Cézanne, by Ambroise Vollard, Dover publications Inc. New York, 1984, pp. 33-34”
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1863· 2 entries
“He (the painter Manet) hits of the tone.. ..but his work lacks unity and temperament too. (ca. 1863)”
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Provoked such outrage among artists that Napoleon III had a "Salon des Refusés" (salon of the rejected) set up next to the official salon
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1861· 1 entry
“Quote of Cezanne, from his letter to Emile Zola, ca 1861; as quoted in Cezanne, by Ambroise Vollard, Dover publications Inc. New York, 1984, p. 23”
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1860· 2 entries
Cézanne obtained permission to paint the walls of the drawing room, and created the large-format murals of the four seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter (today in the Petit Palais in Paris), which Cézanne ironicall
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“Don't you think your Corot [to Guilemet the painter] is a little short on temperament? I'm painting a portrait of Vallabreque; the highlight on the nose is pure vermilion [remark of Cezanne ca. 1860]”
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1859· 2 entries
And attended lectures for the study of jurisprudence
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And their violence of expression is in contrast to his subsequent works
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1857· 1 entry
Began attending the Free Municipal School of Drawing in Aix, where he studied drawing under Joseph Gibert, a Spanish monk
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1852· 1 entry
Cézanne entered the Collège Bourbon in Aix (now Collège Mignet), where he became friends with Émile Zola, who was in a less advanced class, as well as Baptistin Baille—three friends who came to be known as "Les Trois Ins
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1839· 1 entry
Born 1839-01-19.
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