Paul Cézanne: A Harmony Parallel with Nature, with John Walsh

In this three-part lecture series, art historian and curator John Walsh discusses the career of the influential painter Paul Cézanne (1839–1906). Walsh examines Cézanne’s processes of selecting, arranging, abbreviating, and exaggerating his subjects using distinctive techniques in oil and watercolor. Beginning among the Parisian Impressionists and continuing through a profoundly solitary later life, Cézanne’s work eventually became a powerful influence on succeeding generations and continues to influence artists today.

Catalogues of the work

Walter Feichenfeld, Jayne Warman, and David Nash, The Paintings of Paul Cézanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné (https://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/)

Adrien Chappuis, The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vols (Greenwich CT, New York Graphic Society, 1973

Books and exhibition catalogues (in English, in print or available from online used booksellers):

Dita Amory, Madame Cézanne (exhibition catalogue, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2014)

Carol Armstrong, Cézanne in the Studio: Still Life in Watercolors (exhibition catalogue, Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, 2004)

Nina M. Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2003)

Achim Borchardt-Hume, Gloria Groom, Caitlin Haskell, and Natalia Sidlina (eds) Cezanne (exhibition catalogue, Art Institute of Chicago and Tate, 2022)

Philip Callow, Lost Earth: A Life of Cézanne (Chicago, Ivan R. Dee, 1995)

Françoise Cachin, , Isabelle Chan, Walter Feilchenfeldt, Henri Loyrette, and Joseph J. Rishel, Cézanne (exhibition catalogue, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1995)

Cézanne and Beyond (exhibition catalogue, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2009)

Philip Conisbee and Philippe Coutagne, Cézanne in Provence (exhibition catalogue, Washington, National Gallery of Art, 2006)

Alex Danchev, Cézanne, A Life (New York, Pantheon Books, 2012)

------------------, (ed and trans), The Letters of Paul Cézanne (Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, 2013)

Michael Doran (ed), Conversations with Cézanne (Berkeley, University of California Press, 2001)

John Elderfield (ed), Cézanne, The Rock and Quarry Paintings (exhibition catalogue, Princeton University Art Museum, 2020)

--------------------, Cézanne Portraits (exhibition catalogue, National Portrait Gallery, London, 2020)

Lawrence Gowing, Cézanne, The Early Years (exhibition catalogue, London, Royal Academy of Arts, 1988)

Jodi Hauptman and Samantha Friedman (eds), Cézanne Drawing (exhibition catalogue, New York, Museum of Modern Art, 2021)

Benedict Leca (ed), The World Is an Apple: The Still Lifes of Paul Cézanne (exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of Hamilton, 2014)

Joachim Pissarro, Cézanne & Pissarro, Pioneering Modern Painting (exhibition catalogue, New York, Museum of Modern Art, 2003)

John Rewald, Cézanne: A Biography (New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1986)

William Rubin (ed), Cézanne, The Late Work (exhibition catalogue, New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1977)

Meyer Schapiro, Cézanne (New York, Harry N. Abrams, 2nd ed, 1962)

Richard Shiff, Cézanne and the End of Impressionism (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1984)

Matthew Simms, Cézanne’s Watercolors: Between Drawing and Painting (New Haven, Yale University Press, 2006)

Richard Verdi, Cézanne (World of Art, London, Thames & Hudson, 2nd ed, 2022)

Judith Wechsler (ed), Cézanne in Perspective (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1975)

App for visitors to Aix-en-Provence

https://www.cezanne-en-provence.com/en/app-cezanne

Videos

Paul Cézanne: The father of modern art (2018, Rosalind McKever discusses Bathers in the National Gallery, London, 25 min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFdliclkdlE

The Father of Modern Art: Paul Cézanne (2018, Cézanne paintings in the Courtauld Gallery, London, discussed by Jacky Klein, 14 min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsSd5jjITQA

Cézanne: Art and Life (2017, biographer Alex Danchev discusses Cézanne with Jonathan Ribner, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 64 min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKz_7blQkvQ

Cézanne’s Still Lifes at His Studio (2017, film montage of the studio at Les Lauves and Cézanne’s works, National Gallery of Art, 3 min) https://www.nga.gov/audio-video/video/cezanne-still-life-studio.html

A Palpable Tension: Discovering Cézanne (2022, painting techniques revealed by imaging, Art Institute of Chicago, 6 min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSXcbiXB07AC%C3%A9zanne%E2%80%99s

The Story of Cézanne (2017, brief survey of life and work, Tate, 20 min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLia4joNEX4

Paul Cézanne at Tate Modern (2022, Grace Adam and Joshua White discuss works in Tate exhibition, 15 min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3m9nNomPOE