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Paul Cezanne

During the last twenty years of his life, Cézanne repeatedly painted the towering mountain of Sainte-Victoire near his home in Aix-en-Provence. Aiming to reform Impressionism by bringing order and structure to the study of nature, he created tightly integrated compositions of merging, intersecting planes. Here, a rising tree branch echoes the distant mountain slope, thereby relating foreground to background. Sensations of space are created through rhythmic patterns of warm and cool color.

Loan Exhibition: Cezanne. Wildenstein & Co. (organizer) (November 5-December 5, 1959).

Loan Exhibition: Cezanne

Paths of Abstract Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 5-November 13, 1960).

Paths of Abstract Art

Years of Ferment: The Birth of Twentieth-century Art. Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA (January 24-March 7, 1965); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (March 28-May 16, 1965); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 14-August 22, 1965).

Years of Ferment: The Birth of Twentieth-century Art

Juxtapositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 11-October 10, 1965).

Juxtapositions

Cézanne: The Late Work. The Museum of Modern Art (organizer) (October 7, 1977-January 3, 1978).

Cézanne: The Late Work

Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982).

Visions of Landscape: East and West

Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 16-November 8, 1987).

Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960

Sainte-Victoire, Cézanne 1990. Musée Granet, 13100 Aix-en-Provence, France (organizer) (June 15-September 2, 1990).

Sainte-Victoire, Cézanne 1990

Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991).

Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum

Masterworks from The Phillips Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 20-May 29, 2005).

Masterworks from The Phillips Collection

Cézanne in Provence. National Gallery of Art, Landover, MD (organizer) (January 29-May 7, 2006); Musée Granet, 13100 Aix-en-Provence, France (June 5-September 15, 2006).

Cézanne in Provence

Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (June 9-September 16, 2007); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 15-June 1, 2008); Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT (June 22-September 21, 2008); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 12, 2008-January 18, 2009).

Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art

Cézanne Site/Non-Site. Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain (organizer) (February 4-May 18, 2014).

Cézanne Site/Non-Site

Französische Kunst des XIX. und XX. Jahrhunderts. Zürich Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland (1917),

Obecní dÿm. French Art of the 19th-20th Centuries. Galerie Barbazanges.Prague,Czechoslovakia (1923).

Important Pictures by Nineteenth Century French Masters. Lefèvre Galleries, London, United Kingdom (1924),

Exhibition of French Paintings by Cézanne, Matisse, Derain, Utrillo, Pascin, Marie Laurencin, and Van Dongen. Reinhardt Galleries, New York, NY (1926).

Four Paintings by Cézanne. Valentine Gallery, New York, NY (1939).

Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Cézanne. Paul Rosenberg, New York, NY (1942).

A Loan Exhibition of Cézanne. Wildenstein Gallery, New York, NY (1947).

The Post-Impressionists and Their Followers. Society of Four Arts, Palm Beach, FL (1949).

Yale University Art Gallery. New Haven, CT (1950),

Exposition pour commémorer le cinquantenaire de la mort de Cézanne. Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France (1956).

Paul Cézanne 1839-1906. Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (1956).

A colorful oil painting of a landscape with green trees and a mountain, all under a blue sky.

Ambroise Vollard [1866-1939] Paris, France (Vollard archive photograph no. 367).

August Pellerin [1853-1929], Paris, France

Alphonse Kann [1870-1948] Saint-Germain-en Laye, Paris, France

(The Valentine Galleries, New York, NY, February 20, 1939 sold to Leonard C. Hanna Jr.)

Leonard C. Hanna Jr [1889-1957] Cleveland, OH

Leonard C. Hanna [1889-1957] Cleveland, OH, bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art

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