Paul Cézanne

Born: 19 January 1839

Aix-en-Provence, France

Died: 22 October 1906 (aged 67)

Aix-en-Provence, France

The paintings convey Cézanne's intense study of his subjects, a searching gaze and a dogged struggle to deal with the complexity of human visual perception.

self portrait

Throughout his life he struggled to develop an authentic observation of the seen world by the most accurate method of representing it in paint that he could find.

~ Paul Cézanne

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