story - Cezanne studio
     
 
A short history of the studio

1901-1902: The studio was built on Les Lauves hill from Cézanne's own plans.

1902-1906: The studio was the creative home of a "new art" of which Cézanne called himself the "primitive".

1904: In February, Cézanne took on the young painter Emile Bernard at his studio at Les Lauves.

1906: On 22 October, Cézanne died of pleurisy contracted whilst painting as always "on site".

  
     
 

 
 

A short story of the studio

Life and work of the master of Aix

  
1921: Marcel Provence bought the studio from Cézanne's son in order to safeguard "a precious heritage, a spiritual treasure attached to these walls, and to this garden"

died of pleurisy contracted whilst painti

1925: On 4 june, Doctor Albert Barnes visited the site.

1951: Marcel Provence died.

1952: John Rewald and James Lord set up the "Cézanne Memorial Committee".

1954: Thanks to funds collected in the United States, the studio was bought from Marcel Provence's heirs and given to the University of Aix-Marseille. On 8 July, the studio was officially opened to the public.

1955: Marilyn Monroe wrote in the visitor's book, "a wonderful visit".

1969: Ownership of the studio passed from University of Aix-Marseille to the City of Aix en Provence.

Today, visiting the studio is a way of "following little by little in the footstep of Cézanne and witnessing the unfolding of his sensations".

The Large Bathers
1906- Oil on canvas
Philadelphia Museum of Art