Cézanne Studio - 9 avenue Paul Cézanne 13090 Aix-en-Provence

Admirers of Cézanne know that the painter's presence is most strongly felt here at his Lauves studio. In November 1901, Cézanne bought from Joseph Bouquier a small country property on the Lauves hillside amidst 7000 m2 of agricultural terrain planted with olive trees and fig trees and bordered by the Verdon canal. When, after ten months of work, construction was completed, Cézanne wrote to his niece, Paule Conil, on September 1, 1902: “Little Marie cleaned my studio which is now finished and where I am settling in little by little”. Between these walls he gathered, along with his painting materials, all the objects that were dear to him, which he included in his last still lifes. Every day, without fail, Cézanne left his apartment on Boulegon Street to come to work in his large studio in the countryside. Year-round, he rose very early and went to his studio from six in the morning until half past ten, returned to dine in Aix, and afterwards set out again at once to the “reason” or landscape until five o'clock in the evening. Dozens of works now preserved in the great museums of the world, including his final “Bathers”, were painted in this studio of light and silence. After the death of Cézanne in 1906, the studio remained closed for fifteen years. In 1921, Marcel Provence purchased it from Cézanne's son and occupied it until his death in 1951. In 1952, to save the property from greedy real estate developers, James Lord and John Rewald founded the “Cézanne Memorial Committee”. One hundred fourteen American donors made financial contributions to this endeavor. They repurchased Cézanne's studio and donated it to the University of Aix-Marseilles. Inaugurated on on July 8, 1954, the Cézanne Studio Museum was ceded in 1969 to the town of Aix-en-Provence, which is still the owner.


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