1. "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

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

3. (left) Paul Cézanne, Self Portrait, 1878-80. 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

4. Paul Cézanne, Academic study: Male Nude, 1862

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

6. Paul Cézanne, The Abduction, 1867

7. Paul Cézanne, The Murder, 1870

8. Stock, Caricature of Paul Cézanne with the two painting rejected by the Salon jury of 1870. Portrait of Achille Emperaire, 1867-68, 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 so much appreciated by the jury.

9. (left) Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), Louveciennes, 1871. Compare with (right) Paul Cézanne, Louveciennes, 1872, 73 x 92 cm, oil on canvas, private collection

10. (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) Pissarro, Red Roofs: Auvers sur Oise, 1877

11. Cézanne, The Bay from L’Estaque, 1885, 31x39”, Chicago Institute

12. Cézanne, Mont Sainte-Victorire Seen from les Lauves, 1902-6, o/c, 25 x 32”

13. Auguste Renoir (left), Mont Sainte-Victoire, 1889. Compare with Paul Cézanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire, 1889. The artists painted together.

14. Paul Cézanne, Still Life with Basket of Apples, 1890-95, oil on canvas 24 x 31,” The Art Institute of Chicago

15. 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

16. Paul Cézanne, Three Bathers, 1879-82, owned by Henri Matisse (right) Henri Matisse, Joie de Vivre, 1906 (Fauvism)

17. Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avigon, 1907 (8’ tall) Post-lapsarian Paul Cézanne, Large Bathers, 1906 (6’10” tall) Pre-lapsarian

18. Georges Seurat (French, 1859-1891: 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

19. Georges Seurat, Academic Study, c. 1875-1879, chalk drawing Seurat, Embroidery: The Artist’s Mother, 1882-83, conté crayon on ingres paper 12 x 9 “

20. Georges Seurat, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of la Grande Jatte, 1884-86, o/c 6’ 9” x 10’ Art Institute of Chicago. Artist was 25 years old

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

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

23. Seurat, oil studies for La Grande Jatte

24. Seurat, La Grande Jatte compared with Puvis de Chavannes, The Sacred Grove, 1886, 181 x 419”

25. La Grande Jatte compared with Pierro Della Francesca, The True Cross, 1466, early Renaissance Fresco

26. Paul Signac (French 1863-1935), 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”

27. 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