The summer of Paul Cézanne is underway. The city of Aix-en-Provence, France, is recognizing their famous former resident with a year of programming. In addition to a restoration of the Cézanne family ...

Pablo Picasso himself hailed Paul Cézanne as "the father of us all." And now, 186 years after his birth, the French artist is being honored by his hometown. Aix-en-Provence is hosting a year-long ...

It is quite astonishing to realise that a painting few people wanted to buy a little over a century ago is now worth a quarter of a billion dollars. Paul Cézanne’s The Card Players became the most ...

The most direct and thus most incontrovertible connection can be seen in Cézanne`s landscapes. To allow the topography of Provence to enter one`s painting-its contours, its vegetation, its development ...

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 ...

Westminster Abbey, the Eiffel Tower, the Sistine Chapel — these are some of the reasons you came to Europe. They’re also why millions of other tourists are here as well. Nothing kills a sightseeing ...

So deep was the link between painter Paul Cezanne and Provence, National Gallery of Art curator Conisbee surmises, that the red pigment in Cezanne's paints came directly from the marne rouge, the ...

In paintings like Still Life with Apples, Cezanne's fruit don't look edible but still seem to capture "the quintessence of appleness." Susan Stamberg meets a Cezanne look-alike in the local market. A ...

While art historians have long treated Provence as merely""another 'motif' in Cezanne's visual repertory,"" Athanassoglou-Kallmyer (Eugene Delacroix: Prints, Politics, and Satire) smartly insists that ...