Exhibition
Cezanne and Paris
Venue
Musée du Luxembourg
Client
National Museums Assembly
Project Manager
BGC studio
Area
550 m²
Scenographic set-up, design and manufacture in carpentry and rails, sidewalks, furniture, remote installation in workshop, assembly on site, painting of all volumes, installation of carpet, tapestry and logistics.
General Curator:
Gilles Chazal, director of the Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris.
Scientific Curator: Maryline Assante di Panzillo, curator at the Department of Paintings, Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris.
Honorary Chief Curator of Heritage: Denis Coutagne – President of the Paul Cézanne Society.
October 11th 2011 to February 26th 2012
Cezanne (1839-1906)
Cézanne (1839-1906), whom a tenacious legend describes as the solitary «Master of Aix» who retreated to Provence, never really left the capital and the Ile-de-France. Between 1861 and 1905, he kept coming back and forth and drew his inspiration from it. His work bears witness to these trips during which he frequented the impressionists, Pissarro, Guillaumin, Renoir and Monet. Some of his friends like Doctor Gachet, in Auvers-sur-Oise, strongly supported him.
In Paris, Cézanne was confronted with both tradition and modernity. He found the «formulas» before exploiting them in Provence (more than twenty times he went to and from Paris to Provence). The exhibition sheds light on the major themes that he explored at the time: some views in Paris, the landscapes of Ile-de-France, nudes, still life and portraits.
His friendship with Zola was privileged. After 1890, critics, merchants, and collectors began to take an interest in his work. Cézanne showed himself attentive to this recognition which could only come from Paris. Thus, he made his mark in modern art world : the avant-garde considered him a precursor, «father to all», according to Picasso’s formula.
Cezanne and Paris
The exhibition brought together about 80 major works from around the world which was organized in collaboration with the Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris.
Image refetences: Cézanne, Le Quartier du Four in Auvers-sur-Oise (detail), around 1873, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA. The Samuel S. White 3rd and Vera White Collection, 1967.
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