Cezanne: A Life - Alex Dachev

Hear about the revolutionary work and restless life of Paul Cezanne, the influential artist who was originally considered a madman, a barbarian and a sociopath.

Beginning with the unsettled teenager in Aix, biographer Alex Danchev takes us through the trials of a painter who was tormented by self-doubt, rejected by the Salon for forty years, sold nothing outside his immediate circle until his thirties, had a family he kept secret until his forties, had his first exhibition at the age of fifty-six – but who fiercely maintained his revolutionary beliefs.

These beliefs and the life Cezanne led became the obsession and inspiration of artists, writers, poets and philosophers from Matisse and Picasso to Samuel Beckett and Alan Ginsberg.

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