{"id":23267,"date":"2025-06-29T01:26:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T01:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/23267\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T01:26:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T01:26:18","slug":"a-new-exhibit-on-paul-cezanne-opens-at-the-musee-granet-in-aix-en-provence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/23267\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Exhibit on Paul C\u00e9zanne Opens at the Mus\u00e9e Granet in Aix-en-Provence"},"content":{"rendered":"

The summer of Paul C\u00e9zanne is underway. The city of Aix-en-Provence, France, is recognizing their famous former resident with a year of programming. In addition to a restoration of the C\u00e9zanne family estate, Bastide du Jas de Bouffan<\/a>, now open to the public, the year-long ode to the artist includes a highly anticipated exhibition of over 130 works titled C\u00e9zanne au Jas de Bouffan<\/a> at the Mus\u00e9e Granet. It opens today, June 28th. <\/p>\n

Though C\u00e9zanne split time between Paris and Aix-en-Provence, it was at Jas de Bouffan that the young artist began making work\u2014and it\u2019s the Proven\u00e7al landscape that appears in some of his most recognizable pieces. The 35-acre estate was first purchased by C\u00e9zanne\u2019s father in 1859. Intended as a country retreat, it\u2019s believed to have become a permanent residence for the family by 1870, though by then the young artist had already begun painting directly on the walls of its \u201cgrand salon,\u201d according to museum’s press materials. In total, C\u00e9zanne would spend four decades visiting Jas de Bouffan before it was sold in 1899. <\/p>\n

As the city of Aix-en-Provence began its preparations for the year of C\u00e9zanne, the estate was surveyed, and, in 2023, fragments of a never-before-seen painting were discovered. \u201cAuthenticated by the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Paul Cezanne,\u201d these fragmentary finds show \u201ca harbour entrance with flags, masts, buildings and sky,\u201d according to the museums\u2019 press materials. <\/p>\n

The renovations to the “bastide” or family home at Jas de Bouffan are ongoing, but as of June, 2025, the house has opened its doors to visitors, who will have access to C\u00e9zanne’s studio, the “large Proven\u00e7al kitchen, and Madame C\u00e9zanne\u2019s bedroom.” <\/p>\n

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“The Card Players” by Paul Cezanne; 1893-1896; The Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay<\/p>\n

In conjunction with the opening of the bastide is the international exhibit at the Mus\u00e9e
Granet, which opens today, June 28. The oil paintings, drawings, and watercolors on view articulate the relationship between C\u00e9zanne, the family\u2019s estate, and the landscape it occupied. For example, the models for “The Card Players” (1893-1896; on loan from the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay) were men who worked on the property. Also on view at the Granet are many well-known works including the “Bathers At Rest” (1875-1876; from the Geneva Museum of Art and History), Self-Portrait in Front of a Pink Background (1875; from the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay), Still Life with Cherries and Peaches (1885-1887; from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art), and The Four Seasons: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter (1860; Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris). The collection has pieces on loan from museums across the world, and across the artist\u2019s lifespan. Even the museum itself is part of C\u00e9zanne\u2019s story. In 1857, he took free drawing classes at an academy inside what would become the Granet. <\/p>\n

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Courtesy Cezanne 2025 \u00a9 photo Michel Fraisset<\/p>\n

The curation of the exhibition follows the chronology of C\u00e9zanne’s development, starting with the drawings made at the classes at the academy followed by the paintings he made directly on the walls of the estate. In order of his having painted them, viewers will see his landscapes, the Four Seasons panels, and a portrait of his father, among many other works. <\/p>\n

“<\/strong>C\u00e9zanne 2025,“<\/strong> says Sophie Joissains, Mayor of Aix-en-Provence, and Vice-President of the Provence-Alpes-C\u00f4te d\u2019Azur Region, for the exhibition program, “will ensure the artist, forever linked to his hometown of Aix-en-Provence, is remembered as a ‘worthy interpreter of the riches’ of this region\u2014a goal the artist pursued throughout his life.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The summer of Paul C\u00e9zanne is underway. The city of Aix-en-Provence, France, is recognizing their famous former resident…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[648,1032,6543,21089,1033,1201,171,21088,2875,21087,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-23267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-content-type-news-explainer","11":"tag-contentid-104ee67e-abf0-4bf3-80f8-fd9c14d55d30","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-displaytype-standard-article","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-its-the-summer-of-paul-cezanne","16":"tag-locale-us","17":"tag-shorttitle-in-provence","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114764053576560881","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}