by Jon Lackman | 17 February 2006 | Modern, Museums
“Aix’s role has often been dismissed … either ignored or reduced to the simplistic picture of a ‘self-taught’ Cézanne or the harsh diatribes of Zola, Paul Alexis, and Cézanne himself. Did Cézanne really not begin to live until he arrived in Paris in 1861?” writes Bruno Ely in the catalogue to the National Gallery’s Cézanne in Provence show. According to Benedict Leca’s essay, Cézanne’s “work places him as much within a regional artistic context as within the grand narrative of modernism.”
