9781422271742

PAUL CÉZANNE

PLATE 6 The Artist’s Father, Reading L’Événement (1886) Oil on canvas, 78 1 ⁄ 8 x 46 15 ⁄ 16 inches (198.5 x 119.3 cm) Cézanne had a difficult relationship with his banker father, who wanted his son to follow in his footsteps rather than studying art. This painting portrays the figure of Louis-Auguste Cézanne. The newspaper he is reading, his chair, and the room are described with obtrusively thick slabs of pigment, which was an exaggerated style used by Gustave Courbet, who led the Realist movement in the nineteenth century.

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