Paul Cezanne: Finished - Unfinished
Paul Cezanne (1839-1906), after studying law in Aix, attended the Academie Suisse in Paris. He met the Impressionists through his boyhood friend, Emile Zola, and exhibited with them in 1874 and 1877. For a long time, Cezanne's paintings, which were invariably rejected by the Salon jury, were bought only by a few people. Because of this, from 1881 he lived in seclusion in Aix-en-Provence. After his first big exhibition in Paris in 1895, he slowly gained a reputation among adherents of modern art.