By Alex Danchev

With 32-pages of full-color inserts, and black-and-white illustrations throughout.

Alex Danchev supplies us the 1st complete evaluate of the innovative paintings and stressed lifetime of Paul Cézanne to be released in a long time. probably the most influential painters of his time and past, Cézanne used to be the exemplary artist-creator of the trendy age who replaced the way in which we see the world.
 
With brisk mind, wealthy documentation, and eighty-eight colour and fifty-two black-and-white illustrations, Danchev tells the tale of an artist who was once initially thought of a madman, a barbarian, and a sociopath. starting with the unsettled youngster in Aix, Danchev takes us throughout the trials of a painter who believed that paintings needs to be an expression of temperament yet used to be suffering from self-doubt, who was once rejected by means of the Salon for 40 years, who offered not anything open air his speedy circle till his thirties, who had a relatives that he saved mystery from his father till his forties, who had his first exhibition on the age of fifty-six—but who fiercely maintained his progressive ideals. Danchev exhibits us how the ideals Cézanne held and the existence he led turned the obsession and suggestion of artists, writers, poets, and philosophers from Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso to Samuel Beckett and Allen Ginsberg. a distinct function of the booklet is a outstanding sequence of Cézanne’s self-portraits, reproduced in complete color.
 
Cézanne isn't just the interesting lifetime of a visionary artist and outstanding person but in addition a looking evaluate of his ongoing effect within the creative mind's eye of our time. a beautiful portrait of a monumentally vital artist, it is a biography to not be missed.