Cézanne / By Mary Tompkins Lewis.

The early years in Aix; Cezanne in Haussmann's Paris; the early narrative paintings; landscapes in the 1870s; the early nudes and bathers; portraits and still lifes in the 1870s; painting and politics in the 1880s; the years of consolidation; late figures, genre and portraits; the final decade; epilogue.

With his distinctive paintings of landscapes, figures and still lifes, Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) profoundly influenced the direction of early twentieth-century art. In this vivid account, Mary Tompkins Lewis traces Cezanne's life and work from his early years in Aix-en-Provence struggling to become a painter in the face of self-doubt and paternal opposition, through his time in Paris where he studied the Old Masters while immersing himself in Impressionism, to his later, reclusive years back in Provence, when he fused the ideals of the past and present in paintings that made him the precursor of a new art.