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Tag Archives: Courtauld Gallery

Open hands : Cézanne at the Met

commentary and criticism, pictorial artsBy Matthias Wivel8 March 2011

Throughout his life, Paul Cézanne nurtured an ambition to paint figure compositions in the renaissance tradition. At various points in his career he thus attempted to populate his otherwise open landscapes with anonymous, lumpy nudes, often bathing. There is something uncomfortable, something unresolved, about these paintings — they seem an intellectual aspiration toward a pastoral…

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