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All of Cezanne's Palettes on Display at the Grand Palais

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Paul Cezanne, Les Grandes Baigneuses, Vers 1894 - 1905 © The National Gallery, London

Until January 17th, the Grand Palais invites us to dive into Cézanne's legacy by bringing together more than 180 works from dozens of artists among the greatest names in world art. A breathtaking retrospective that showcases all the talent of this major artist, both through his work and his influence.

For Sérusier, he was "the pure painter". For Picasso, "our father to us all". Long dismissed during his lifetime, Paul Cezanne eventually established himself as one of the greatest painters in art history, leaving behind an indelible mark. The Grand Palais now revisits the career of this artist who became a reference point for modern and contemporary art in an unprecedented dialogue with nearly 80 artists.


An endless source of inspiration

As we celebrate the 120th anniversary of his death this year, Paul Cezanne takes over the Grand one of the masters of impressionism, of postimpressionism, and one of the precursors of abstraction.

To do this, the museum brought together 174 works from the Musée d'Orsay, the Orangerie and the Pompidou Centre. While 69 are from Cézanne, the 105 others were created by no fewer than 78 artists inspired by the genius of the painter from Aix-en-Provence, his ability to break the rules and free painting to take it somewhere else. From room to room, our gaze encounters Gauguin, Matisse, Signac, Baselitz, Braque, Delaunay, Hockney, Maillol, Mondrian, Soulages, Warhol or Picasso…


A monumental retrospective

Beyond presenting Cézanne as a model, a painter apart whose radicality paved the way for hundreds of

artists, the exhibition traces his entire career, revisiting his greatest masterpieces. Here, his bathers are celebrated. There, his landscapes of the Provence quarries, to which he was so attached. We remain in admiration before his famous apples with which he wanted to "astound Paris", and his work on the unfinished fascinates as much as it questions. And, of course, impossible to resist the grand finale around his representations of Mont Sainte-Victoire. A spectacular retrospective, constructed as a unique dialogue between Cezanne and all the artists marked by this painting genius, not to be missed.

Cezanne and Us
Grand Palais
17, avenue du Général-Eisenhower – 8th arrondissement
Until January 17, 2027
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