Paul Cézanne was a French painter. He was one of the most influential artists of the late nineteenth century. Initially considered under the umbrella of the Impressionists, he moved beyond this description and formed a link between Impressionism and that which came after. His works are commonly known as Post-impressionist.

Cézanne was born in 1839 in Aix-en-Provence, a small city in the south of France. He went to school there and became friends with the renowned author-to-be Émile Zola. At the age of 18 he began attending a drawing school in Aix, but then went on to study law as his father wished. During this time he continued drawing lessons and at the end of his degree, encouraged by his friend Zola, moved to Paris to pursue his art. In Paris, at the Academie Suisse, he met Camille Pissarro, who was just beginning his own career. At the beginning of the Franco-Prussian war in 1870, Cézanne left Paris, like many others (Monet and Pissarro went to London), to avoid being called up to fight. However, the war was short lived and Cézanne moved back to the Paris region after the birth of his first son, living in Auvers. Pissarro lived in nearby Pontoise and the two often painted together maintaining their close friendship. Cézanne looked up to the older Pissarro, considering himself his pupil. Through the 1870s, Cézanne split his time between Paris and his home region of Provence in the south. From the 1880s he lived and painted mainly in Provence. Cézanne lived long enough to begin to get recognition for his work during the final years of his life. He died in 1906.

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The later years of his life were often unhappy ones for Cézanne, even while his reputation among critics and fellow artists was growing. Family life was strained, with Cézanne mainly living apart from his wife and son. In 1895 he visited the Bibémus quarries, close to Mont Sainte-Victoire, already a favourite subject, which would become one of his main inspirations over the coming years. It is suggested that the paintings of the craggy blocks of the Bibémus quarries in particular inspired the Cubism movement.

Diagnosed with diabetes in 1890, Cézanne also suffers from regular migraines making it difficult to work. In his final years he apparently developed a pre-occupation with the coming of death, painting a number of still lifes with skulls from 1898 until his death in 1906.

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Paul Cézanne: The Early Years (1866-1878)
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Paul Cézanne | 1878 - 1895 | The Middle Years
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