Trees and Rocks, Near the Chateau Noir

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Title Trees and Rocks, Near the Chateau Noir Creator Paul C¨¦zanne 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 C¨¦zanne 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 Chateau Noir, C¨¦zanne 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 Show more