Research Catalog

Title

Paul Cézanne, a biography. [Translation by Margaret H. Liebman].

Author

Rewald, John, 1912-1994.

Publication

New York, Simon and Schuster [1948]

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Details

Additional Authors

Liebman, Margaret H.

Description

xvii, 231 pages illustrations, portraits; 24 cm

Summary

This volume is a biography of French artist and Post-Impressionist painter Paul Câezanne (1839-1906). Câezanne laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Câezanne can be said to form the bridge between late 19th century Impressionism and the early 20th century's new line of artistic inquiry, Cubism. This work, by a noted scholar of Câezanne, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism and other French painters of the late 19th century, attempts to tell the story of Câezanne's life in a very factual manner, letting documents, first-person accounts, and other historic evidence speak for themselves. Much of the author's evidence comes from correspondence between Câezanne and âEmile Zola, a French writer and Câezanne's early childhood friend.

Uniform Title

Cézanne et Zola. English

Alternative Title

Cézanne et Zola.

Subject

• Cézanne, Paul, 1839-1906
• Zola, Émile, 1840-1902
• Painters > France > Biography
• Painters
• France

Genre/Form

• Biography
• Biographies.

Note

• "First published in 1936 in Paris as a Sorbonne thesis, under the title Cézanne et Zola."

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 222-226.

Contents

Youth in Aix -- First correspondence with Zola, 1858-59 -- Cézanne dreams of painting, 1860 -- Cézanne in Paris and his return to Aix, 1861-62 -- The Salon des Refusés, 1863 -- Early works, 1863-66 -- Zola as art critic, 1866 -- Portrait of Cézanne -- New articles by Zola, 1867-68 -- Cézanne and Zola at work -- The war, 1870-71 -- L'Estaque and Auvers, 1871-74 -- First exhibitions, 1874-77 -- Cézanne and his family -- Cézanne at Zola's in Médan -- Criticism and caricatures, 1880 -- Cézanne in Provence, 1881-85 -- Zola's L'OEuvre, 1885-86 -- The break with Zola -- Search for peace, 1890-99 -- Cézanne attracts attention in Paris -- Cézanne and his admirers -- Cézanne's theories about art -- The last years, 1900-06.

LCCN

48009248

OCLC

• ocm01213068
• 1213068
• SCSB-9352452

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library