These were the questions the curators of a new, once-in-a-generation retrospective of the French painter at the Art Institute of Chicago asked themselves as they went to work a few years back. When it ...

Welcoming one pensively to the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s marvelous exhibition “Cézanne and Beyond” is the French master’s “The Bather” (c. 1885), familiar for many years as the first painting one ...

As an “ode to the ultimate summer muse,” London gallery Saatchi Yates has organized the exhibition “Bathers,” on view through August 10. Artists have depicted this subject since Classical antiquity, ...

A new exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art shows how the French painter’s influence endured for more than a century, making him “the Master of us all,” as Matisse said.By Richard Lacayo The ...

He would return to the same subjects again and again: forests and trees, fruit and faces, bathers in and out of water. For the renowned French artist Paul Cézanne, it was all about the effort: "I ...

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After all the retrospectives given to Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) in recent years -- especially the magisterial survey at the Philadelphia Art Museum in 1996 and its smaller "Cezanne and Beyond," which ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “If Cézanne is right, then I am right,” Matisse consoled himself in periods of doubt. He also turned to Renoir: ...

Our group is taking a watercolour class on the terrace of Les Lodges, a delightful hotel in Aix-en-Provence noted for its wonderful view of Mont Sainte-Victoire. We are embarking on a futile attempt ...

The most poignant detail of “Cezanne,” a co-exhibit between the Art Institute and London’s Tate Modern, is also one of its tiniest. If you’ve seen Paul Cezanne’s works on display before, you’ve ...