Room 180

Paul Cézanne

1839–1906, France (Aix-en-Provence), Post-Impressionism

Cézanne wanted “to make of Impressionism something solid and durable”. In Provence he painted the same motifs again and again – Mont Sainte-Victoire, apples, jugs, peasants playing cards – building them up from patches of colour as if they were geometric solids. Picasso is said to have called him “the father of us all”.

All works

• Harlequin
• Boy in a Red Waistcoat
• Montagne Sainte-Victoire, from near Gardanne
• The Peppermint Bottle
• Château Noir
• Still Life with Apples and Peaches
• The Gardener Vallier
• Still Life with Milk Jug and Fruit
• At the Water's Edge
• The Bend in the Road
• The Artist's Father, Reading "L'Événement"
• Antony Valabrègue
• Banks of the Seine at Médan
• Vase of Flowers
• Landscape near Paris
• Houses in Provence: The Riaux Valley near L'Estaque
• Flowers in a Rococo Vase
• The Battle of Love
• Three Pears
• Louis Guillaume
• The Artist's Son, Paul
• House of Père Lacroix
• Man with Pipe
• Self-Portrait [recto]
• Landscape Near Aix-en-Provence
• Peonies
• The Artist's Son Reading
• Figure Resting Head on Hand
• Basket
• Study of the Allegorical Figure of the Genius of Health from Rubens' "The Birth of Louis XIII at Fontainbleau"
• Chair and Dresser
• Hand and Shoulder of a Boy
• The Mill
• Madame Cezanne
• Study of Houses
• Trees and Shrubs
• Victor Chocquet and an Angel for "The Apotheosis of Delacroix"
• Banks of the Seine at Médan
• Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen beyond the Wall of the Jas de Bouffan
• Geraniums
• Trees Leaning over Rocks
• The Bathers (Large Plate)
• The Bathers (Small Plate)
• The Bathers (Small Plate)
• The Bathers (Small Plate)
• The Bathers (Small Plate)