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Mount Sainte-Victoire
Paul Cezanne (French, 1839–1906)c. 1904
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
During the last twenty years of his life, Cézanne repeatedly painted the towering mountain of Sainte-Victoire near his home in Aix-en-Provence. Aiming to reform Impressionism by bringing order and structure to the study of nature, he created tightly integrated compositions of merging, intersecting planes. Here, a rising tree branch echoes the distant mountain slope, thereby relating foreground to background. Sensations of space are created through rhythmic patterns of warm and cool color.
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- Title: Mount Sainte-Victoire
- Creator: Paul Cezanne (French, 1839–1906)
- Date Created: c. 1904
- Physical Dimensions: Framed: 87.5 x 106.5 x 7 cm (34 7/16 x 41 15/16 x 2 3/4 in.); Unframed: 72.2 x 92.4 cm (28 7/16 x 36 3/8 in.)
- Provenance: Ambroise Vollard [1866-1939] Paris, France (Vollard archive photograph no. 367)., Dr. G. Schweitzer, Berlin Germany, August Pellerin [1853-1929], Paris, France, Alphonse Kann [1870-1948] Saint-Germain-en Laye, Paris, France, (Galerie Barbazanges, Paris France), (Reinhardt Galleries, New York, NY), (The Valentine Galleries, New York, NY, February 20, 1939 sold to Leonard C. Hanna Jr.), Leonard C. Hanna Jr [1889-1957] Cleveland, OH, Leonard C. Hanna [1889-1957] Cleveland, OH, bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1958.21
- Medium: oil on fabric
- Fun Fact: Cezanne created 36 paintings and 45 watercolors of Mount Sainte-Victoire. He was obsessed with this subject and painted this mountain over and over until his death.
- Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Culture: France, late 19th-early 20th Century
- Credit Line: Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.
- Collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
- Accession Number: 1958.21
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