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Cézanne and Us

Culture · Wednesday, October 28 · 10:00 · Paris

Grand Palais, Avenue Winston Churchill

Free

This exhibition, unprecedented, is devoted to Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) and his artistic legacy. From Paul Gauguin to Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Piet Mondrian, Joan Mitchell, Bridget Riley and Peter Doig, nearly 180 works trace how his work was discovered, interpreted and transformed, from the late 19th century to today. At the end of the 1880s, when he no longer sought to exhibit, artists and collectors discover Cézanne’s work in the shop of Père Tanguy. There they find a formal radicality that confirms their search for a “pure” art, already engaged…