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1 Post-Impressionism

2 "I had a dream the other day
"I had a dream the other day. I had written a beautiful book, a wonderful book, which you had illustrated with beautiful, wonderful pictures. Both of our names shone in letters of gold on the first page and, inseparable to this fraternity of genius, passed on to posterity." Letter to Paul Cézanne from Emile Zola From Paris, early 1860’s

3 Paul Cézanne (French, 1839-1906), photo-portrait, 1861 (year of first stay in Paris)
“The Master of Aix”

4 (left) Paul Cézanne, Self Portrait, 1878-80
(left) Paul Cézanne, Self Portrait, Compare with (right) Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Vollard, 1910 (Analytic Cubism) “What forces our interest is Cézanne’s Anxiety. That’s Cézanne’s lesson.” Pablo Picasso

5 Paul Cézanne, Academic study: Male Nude, 1862

6 Paul Cézanne, Father of the Artist (Louis Auguste), 1866

7 Paul Cézanne, The Abduction, 1867

8 Paul Cézanne, The Murder, 1870

9 Stock, Caricature of Paul Cézanne with the two painting rejected by the Salon jury of Portrait of Achille Emperaire, , oil on canvas, 78 3/4 x 48 in. (200 x 122 cm), Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Intentionally lacked all the elements of charm, grace and finish appreciated by the jury.

10 (left) Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), Louveciennes, 1871
(left) Camille Pissarro ( ), Louveciennes, Compare with (right) Paul Cézanne, Louveciennes, 1872, 73 x 92 cm, oil on canvas, private collection. Transformation of Cézanne’s style through the Impressionism of Pissarro

11 (left) Paul Cézanne, The Hanged Man's House, 1873, oil on canvas, 22 x 26”, Musée d'Orsay, Paris – breakthrough and beginning of mature style. (right) Camille Pissarro, Red Roofs: Auvers sur Oise, 1877

12 Paul Cézanne, The Bay from L’Estaque, 1885, 31x39”, Chicago Institute

13 Paul Cézanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from les Lauves 1902-6, oil on canvas, 25 x 32”

14 Auguste Renoir (left), Mont Sainte-Victoire, 1889
Auguste Renoir (left), Mont Sainte-Victoire, Compare with Paul Cézanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire, The artists painted these paintings together in Aix, en plein aire.

15 Paul Cézanne, Still Life with Basket of Apples, , oil on canvas 24 x 31,” The Art Institute of Chicago

16 Paul Cézanne, Large Bathers, 1906 (the year he died, unfinished), o/c, 6’10” x 8’2,” Philadelphia MA
Nicolas Poussin, Mars and Venus, o/c, 1626

17 Paul Cézanne, Three Bathers, , owned by Henri Matisse (right) Henri Matisse, Joie de Vivre, (Fauvism)

18 Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avigon, 1907 (8’ tall) Post-lapsarian (“after the Fall”) Paul Cézanne, Large Bathers, 1906 (6’10” tall) Pre-lapsarian (“before the Fall”)

19 The Eiffel Tower, 1889, 9 ½ X 6”, Fine Arts Museums, San Francisco
Georges Seurat (French, , lived 31 years) Neo-Impressionism (Divisionism, Pointillism, Scientific Impressionism, Chromo-luminism) Overheard at a Neo-Impressionist exhibition in 1894 : “It’s done mechanically?” “No, Monsieur, by hand.” The Eiffel Tower, 1889, 9 ½ X 6”, Fine Arts Museums, San Francisco

20 Georges Seurat, Academic Study, c
Georges Seurat, Academic Study, c , chalk drawing Seurat, Embroidery: The Artist’s Mother, , conté crayon on ingres paper 12 x 9 “

21 Georges Seurat, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of la Grande Jatte, , o/c, 6’ 9” x 10’ Art Institute of Chicago. Artist was 25 years old

22 Detail of La Grande Jatte (dog next to monkey) showing Pointillist technique

23 Georges Seurat, Child in White, and Couple, preparatory drawings for La Grande Jatte,1884

24 Georges Seurat, oil studies for La Grande Jatte

25 Georges Seurat ( ) La Grande Jatte, 1884, compared with (below) Puvis de Chavannes (French Symbolist, ) The Sacred Grove, 1884, part of mural for the Lyons Museum of Fine Art, 181 x 419.” Seurat assisted Puvis de Chavannes on this work.

26 Seurat, La Grande Jatte compared with Pierro Della Francesca, The True Cross, 1466, early Italian Renaissance fresco

27 Paul Signac (French ), Neo-Impressionism Against the Enamel of a Background Rhythmic with Beats and Angles, Tones and Tints: Portrait of M. Félix Fénéon in 1890, 1890, o/c, 29 x 36”

28 Paul Signac, The Gulf of Sainte Tropez, 1892 compared with Henri Matisse, Luxe, Calme, et Volupté, 1904 Signac and Matisse painted side by side in Sainte Tropez


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