P A U L . C E Z A N N E

born in 1839 in Aix-en-Provence, France;

left Paris in 1861 to return to work

in his father's bank after a disillusioning

period of painting;

in 1862 returned to Paris to paint;

he was not admitted to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts;

and from 1863 his works were regularly rejected

by the Salon and were actually ridiculed;

exhibited with the Impressionists only

two times (1877);

association with Zola, Monet and Renoir;

in 1895 Pissarro persuaded Vollard to organize

a large exhibition of Cezanne's work at his

gallery in the Rue Lafitte in Paris;

after 1900 Cezanne becomes solitary;

Cezanne later became famous as the most

profoundly original painter of the modern period;

his still lifes especially are without parallel;

his landscapes, however, are considered today

as precursors of Cubism as they tend to organize

space into geometric form;

"As with me, sensations are at the root

of all things, I am, I believe, impenetrable;

he died in France in 1906.