Trees and Rocks, Near the Château Noir

Paul Cézanneca. 1900 - 1906

Details

Title: Trees and Rocks, Near the Château Noir
Creator: Paul Cézanne
Creator Lifespan: 1839 - 1906
Creator Nationality: French
Creator Gender: Male
Creator Death Place: Aix-en-Provence, France
Creator Birth Place: Aix-en-Provence, France
Date: ca. 1900 - 1906
Location: Aix-en-Provence, France
Physical Dimensions: 24 3/8 x 20 1/4 inches
Description: Paul Cézanne spent most of his career painting landscapes, still lifes, and portraits in solitude and relative obscurity in Aix-en-Provence, in the South of France. But in the mid-1890s, Paris dealers, collectors, and a generation of younger painters discovered his work and finally appreciated its brilliant emphasis on pattern and structure. By 1900, when he painted Trees and Rocks, Near the Château Noir, Cézanne had unexpectedly become one of the more influential artists of his age. His austere palette and taut, interlocking brushwork, so evident here, revealed the very bones of painting composition. It also charted a path to Cubist abstraction, which would dominate early twentieth-century art.
Provenance: Museum purchase from Cornelia Ritchie and Ritchie Trust No. 4
Type: Oil paintings
Rights: Dixon Gallery and Gardens. For Terms and Conditions for use of this image please contact the Registrar at 901-761-5250.
Medium: Oil on canvas

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