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Paul
Cézanne
Painter
Born on 19/1/1839
at Aix-en-Provence (France)
Deceased on 22/10/1906
at Aix-en-Provence (France)
Dedication
He painted more than 900 paintings and 400 watercolours. In the history of art, he remains a solitary and original figure whose work marks the starting point for the great adventure of 20th century painting.
Date created 2/3/2006
Last updated on 2/3/2006
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19 January 1839 Paul Cézanne was born 28 rue de l’Opéra, in Aix-en-Provence, one of the Southernmost regions of France, as the son of a wealthy banker.
0votre avis22 February 1839 He is christened in the church "la Madeleine".
0votre avis1844 He attends primary school in Rue des Epineaux.
0votre avis1850 He is a pupil in the Saint-Joseph boarding school.
0votre avis1852 Paul, boarder in Bourbon college, befriends Emile Zola.
0votre avis1857 He enrolls the municipal school of drawing, which is now the Granet Museum.
0votre avis1858 He registers at the faculty of Aix, studies law, and develops his early love of art. Going against the objections of his father, he committs himself to pursuing his artistic development.
0votre avisNovember 1858 to August 1859, he follows the lessons of the municipal school of drawing assiduously.
0votre avis1861 Paul leaves Aix for Paris with his close friend Émile Zola. In Paris, he meets Pissarro (in the Swiss Academy) and the other Impressionists.
0votre avis1863 He exhibits in the "Salon des Refusés", and works in the Swiss Academy.
0votre avis1864 to 1869 he submitts his work to the official Salon and sees it consistently rejected.
0votre avis1866 He meets Manet through Zola who had become Manet's friend.
0votre avis1869 He meets Hortense Fiquet, a model, and becomes her companion.
0votre avis1870 During the French-Prussian war, they take refuge in Estaque, near Marseille.
0votre avis1872 After the birth of his son, Paul, he joins Pissarro at Pontoise, near Paris, to paint the countryside around them. This id the beginning of his Impressionist period (1872-1877) and his palette brightens considerably as he meets such lovers of light as Renoir and Monet.
0votre avis1874 Pissarro obtains the participation of Paul to the first Impressionist exhibition. His works will be very badly received there, and he shall refuse to send paintings to the second exhibition in 1876.
0votre avis1877 He takes part in the third Impressionist Exhibition. Thereafter, however, he began to drift away from the Impressionists to pursue his own experiments, returning regularly in the South.
He comes on to create a radically new approach to painting, reproducing reality in a quasi abstract manner.
0votre avis1878 His son’s existence is fortuitously discovered by his father.
0votre avis1881 Paul’s brother-in-law buys a house with a view on the Saint-Victoire mountain. He feels this mountain in his compositions is the essence of all that he had felt had eluded the Impressionists - firmness, solidity, permanence.
0votre avis1882 One of his portraits is accepted for the Official Salon.
0votre avis1886 In april, he marries Hortense in the presence of his parents. In october his father dies and Paul receives a large inheritance, on which he could continue living a comfortable life.
Over Zola's fictionalized depiction of Paul in the novel L'Oeuvre (The Masterpiece), they disagreed, and never reconciled.
0votre avis1895 Ambroise Vollard, a renowned art dealer, organises an exhibit of Paul’s work in Paris where 150 of his paintings are exhibited. Appreciation and acceptance of his innovative work follows.
0votre avis1899 He exhibits his paintings in the Salon des Indépendants.
0votre avis1905 Theory of Relativity proposed At the Salon d'Automne, Paul experiences his true triumph and that his reputation begins to extend beyond the borders of France.
He writes : "One is neither too scrupulous and sincere, nor too subjected to nature; but one is more or less master of his model, and especially of his means of expression ".
0votre avis22 October 1906 San Fransico Earthquake Paul collapses while painting outdoors during a thunderstorm.
He dies of pneumonia in his flat of Aix-en-Provence.
0votre avis1907 Hague Peace Conference The "Salon d’Automne" posthumously dedicates a retrospective to Paul where 56 of his paintings are exhibited.
0votre avis10 May 1999 Impeachment trial of President Clinton Paul's painting Rideau, cruchon et compotier is sold for $60.5 million, the fourth-highest price paid for a painting up to that time.
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