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Paul Cezanne Paul Cezanne (January 19, 1839 – October 22, 1906) was a French painter who represents the bridge from impressionism to cubism. Life and work In Paris, he met Camille Pissarro and other impressionists. Cezanne began with the light, airy painting of the impressionists, but gradually solidified it and made it more architectural. In his words: "I want to make of impressionism something solid and lasting like the art in the museums." He structurally ordered whatever he perceived into simple forms and colour planes to create the most telling image of the subject matter. His geometric essentialisation of forms influenced cubism, in particular. His paintings were in the first exhibition of the Salon des Refuses in 1863, which displayed works not accepted by the jury of the official Paris Salon. The Paris Salon rejected Cezanne's submissions every year from 1864 to 1869. He exhibited little in his lifetime and worked in increasing artistic isolation, remaining in the South of France far from Paris. He concentrated on a few subjects: still lifes, studies of bathers, and especially the Mont Sainte-Victoire, of which he painted innumerable views. Still Life with Fruit Basket (1888-90) Barnes Foundation, Merion, Pennsylvania. Oil on canvas.To early 20th-century modernists, Cezanne was the founder of modern painting. Henri Matisse called him, "the father of us all". Cezanne and Zola disagreed, and never reconciled, over Zola's fictionalized depiction of Cezanne in the novel L'Oeuvre (The Masterpiece, 1886). In 1906, Cezanne collapsed while painting in the outdoors during a thunderstorm. One week later, on October 22, he died of pneumonia. On May 10, 1999, Cezanne's painting Rideau, cruchon et compotier
sold for $60.5 million, the fourth highest price paid for a painting
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