The growth of Cezanne, the painter, is traced through a comprehensive consideration of his oeuvre, including forty stunning futl-page cotorplates, from his early Life in Aix and the continuing conflict with his father, to his evolution as a painter in Paris and, finalty, his return home--where the emotionality of his early pictures is transfigured in a resurgence of intense feeling that characterizes the work of his Last years.

In Cezanne's painting, human, personal, and natural elements are transformed into an expression of the noblest quatities of art--a personal, ideat imbued with a universal meaning for which his work is stiLt revered today.

As he strove to maintain a dynamic balance between his emotions and his need for order and objectivity, Cezanne saw in his own work "an exciting serenity."

Although he painted directly from nature, Iike the Impressionists, Cezanne was strongly influenced by the more formal, art he studied in the Louvre. Unlike Pissarro or Monet, however, Cezanne was always deeply concerned with composition, as welt as with integration and variation.

As world-renowned art historian Meyer Schapiro writes in this essay, first published in 1962,Cezanne strove to fuse nature and self in his work, and in order to do this, he had to create a new method of painting.Thus, the visible worl.d on a Cezanne canvas is not simply represented, it is actually re-created through strokes of color, among which are many that we cannot identify with an object and yet are necessary for the harmony of the whole.

Paul Cezanne by Meyer Schapiro

View of Gardanne

View of Auvers

Portrait of Chocquet

SeLf-Portrait with PaLette

Madame Cezanne in the Conservatory

TuLips and AppLes

The Young ItaLian GirL

Turning Road at MontgerouLt

Women Bathers

UncLe Dominic as a Monk

The Picnic

The BLack CLock

LEstaque, MeLting Snow

The Man with a Straw Hat (Portrait of Boyer)

The Suicide"s House

Bacchanal (La Lutte d"Amour)

Chocquet Seated

SeLf-Portrait

StiLL Life with Compotier

Portrait of Louis GuiLLaume

Mme. Cezanne

Sti LL Life

The Bay from L"Estaque

Mont Sainte-Victoire

The Bather

House in Provence

Chestnut Trees at the Jas de Bouffan

Mont Sainte-Victoire

The BLue Vase

Mountains in Provence

Road at ChantiLLy

ChAteau de Marines

The Card PLayers

StiLL Life with Basket of AppLes

Boy in a Red Vest

Portrait of Gustave Geffroy

StiLL Life with Peppermint BottLe

StiLL Life with PLaster Cupid

StiLL Life with AppLes

StiLL Life with AppLes and Oranges

The House with Cracked WaLLs

The Great Pine

Quarry and Mont Sainte-Victoire

StiLL Life with Onions and BottLe

Rocks at FontainebLeau

Woods with MiLLstone

Le Chateau Noir

Mont Sainte-Victoire

Portrait of VaLUer