Paul Cézanne

Profession: French Painter

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Biography: French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century.

Born: January 19, 1839
Birthplace: Aix-en-Provence, France
Star Sign: Capricorn

Died: October 22, 1906 (aged 67)
Cause of Death: Pneumonia

Articles and Photos

My ‘Pretty’ Paintings, by Renoir
Artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born on this day. An Impressionist, he created thousands of paintings, refusing to allow crippling arthritis to stop his work.
February 25, 1841

Married Life

1886-04-28 Painter Paul Cézanne (47) weds Marie-Hortense Fiquet (36)

Historical Events

1863-05-15 Salon des Refusés opens in Paris, exhibition of works rejected by official Salon, features Paul Cézanne, Camille Pissarro, Henri Fantin-Latour, James Whistler, and Édouard Manet
1929-11-07 Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) opens in the Hecksher Building in New York - its first exhibition features Cezanne, Gauguin, Seurat and van Gogh
1993-05-10 Paul Cézanne's painting "Still Life With Apples" sells for US$28,600,000 in NYC

My ‘Pretty’ Paintings, by Renoir