Cézanne and Beyond

paul cezanne
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Madame Cézanne in a Red Armchair, Paul Cézanne, c. 1877
Cézanne painted his future wife Hortense as a nearly monumental figure composed all the same from a field of flickering brushstrokes.

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