A new work believed to be by the French painter Paul Cézanne has been founded on the walls of his childhood home during renovations. Photo courtesy of Aixmaville/Facebook A new work believed to be by ...

These were the questions the curators of a new, once-in-a-generation retrospective of the French painter at the Art Institute of Chicago asked themselves as they went to work a few years back. When it ...

He would return to the same subjects again and again: forests and trees, fruit and faces, bathers in and out of water. For the renowned French artist Paul Cézanne, it was all about the effort: "I ...

Portraits by Cézanne at the Musée d’Orsay includes 60 psychologically loaded canvases from all periods of the artist’s career. Standing within the first gallery, I ask myself: If Cézanne means an ...

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BOSTON - Visitors are encouraged to “look carefully” at the singular paintings of Paul Cezanne to fathom the stylistic intricacies of the trailblazing artist whose work bridged the 19th and 20th ...

As modernism settles into the distant past, the role of French artist Paul Cézanne in forging that movement has never seemed more certain. Born in 1839, Cézanne pointed the way ahead by looking ...

Paul Cézanne’s Portrait de l’artiste au fond rose was probably created in 1875. It’s on loan to the Art Institute of Chicago from the Musée d’Orsay in Paris for this exhibition. Credit: Adrien ...

To understand art history is to understand artists’ practices, and there’s no better way to scrutinize a great painter’s techniques than to observe the canvas directly, says John Elderfield, the Adler ...

Fakes! Forgeries! Frauds! The art media loves a good scandal, especially one amplified by miscreants and skullduggery. Take Wolfgang Beltracchi, a German art forger, who faked between 1,000 and 1,300 ...

The first painting visitors to “Cezanne” at the Art Institute of Chicago encounter is “Undergrowth (Sous-Bois)” (c. 1894), a pine-forest scene painted from a bit below the trees, gazing up, with a ...