From the artist's life
Cézanne painted Mont Sainte-Victoire, the mountain near his home, more than 80 times, trying to grasp its underlying structure.
Source: Wikipedia / WikimediaPost-Impressionism
Paul Cézanne
Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) was the father of modern art, who sought to build paintings from solid, geometric structure. His patient studies of apples, bathers and Mont Sainte-Victoire opened the road to Cubism.
Both Picasso and Matisse called Cézanne the father of us all; he turned painting toward abstraction.
- Sought to treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere and the cone, founding modern form.
- Painted the same mountain and the same apples over and over to grasp their structure.
- Bridged Impressionism and Cubism; Picasso and Matisse revered him as their father.
Key works
Where to start
Complete list of key works
Works with a dedicated ArtAtlas page are highlighted in gold.
- Mont Sainte-VictoireOn ArtAtlas
- The Card PlayersOn ArtAtlas
- Les Grandes BaigneusesListed for reference
- Mardi GrasListed for reference
- The Boy in the Red VestListed for reference
- The Basket of ApplesListed for reference
- Jeune Fille au piano (Girl at the Piano - The Overture to Tannhauser)Listed for reference
- Lady in BlueListed for reference
- La Maison du pendu, Auvers-sur-OiseListed for reference
1902
Mont Sainte-Victoire
Cézanne painted Mont Sainte-Victoire over 60 times between the 1880s and his death in 1906 — it was visible from his studio window outside Aix-en-Provence and became a near-obsession in his final years.
1893
The Card Players
The Card Players is a series of oil paintings by the French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Cézanne. Painted during Cézanne's final period in the early 1890s, there are five paintings in the series. The versions vary in size, the number of players, and the setting in which the game takes place.