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For the first time in its history, the Fondation Beyeler is devoting a solo exhibition to Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) – a pioneer of modern art and a prominent artist in its collection. Bringing together around 80 works, the exhibition focusses on the French painter’s last and most significant phase, showcasing Cezanne at the height of his powers: enigmatic portraits, idyllic scenes of bathers, viscerally evocative landscapes of his native Provence, and endlessly renewed depictions of his favourite motif, the Montagne Sainte-Victoire. Working in his studio in the South of France, Cezanne brought his masterful intuition to establishing complex and powerful tension between colour, light and form, constructing revolutionary images that have inspired generations of artists to this day. The exhibition illustrates how Cezanne transformed painting and, in the words of Pablo Picasso, became “the father of us all”
Bringing together 58 oil paintings and 21 watercolours from celebrated institutional and private collections in Switzerland, France, Germany, England, Spain, the Netherlands, Denmark and the United States, the exhibition showcases Cezanne’s groundbreaking late work. Next to iconic works from major public collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum, the Musée d’Orsay, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the Tate, half of the paintings on display are loans from private collections, many of which are rarely seen in public.
The exhibition’s highlights include the bringing together of nine depictions of the Montagne Sainte-Victoire, as well as the joint presentation of two of Cezanne’s rare depictions of card players, the celebrated painting of the Courtauld Gallery in London and the legendary version from the …
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Image above: Paul Cezanne Les joueurs de cartes, 1893–1896 The Card Players Oil on canvas, 47 x 56.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris © Musée d’Orsay, Dist. GrandPalaisRmn / Patrice Schmidt
