Paul Cézanne Mont Sainte-Victoire original painting with blocks of colour and green and uyellowlandscape in foreground and mountain in backPaul Cézanne: Mont Sainte-Victoire Public domain.
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Van Gogh Boulevard de Clichy showing view down road from place de clichy with tall buildings to right and statue in middle of squareBoulevard de Clichy by van Gogh Public domain
Paul Cézanne
Paul Cézanne Mont Sainte-Victoire original painting with blocks of colour and green and uyellowlandscape in foreground and mountain in backPaul Cézanne: Mont Sainte-Victoire Public domain. Philadelphia Museum of Art
Paul Cézanne(19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was born and lived most of his life in Aix-en-Provence. He refused to become a banker, as his father had wanted, took evening classes and in 1861 left Aix for Paris. He was refused entry into the École des Beaux-Arts but became friends with Camille Pissarro, and later with Claude Monet, Renoir and Sisley. He was not universally popular; Manet called the shy and socially gauche man ‘a mason who paints with a trowel’.