Cézanne

American  

[si-zan, sey-zan] / sɪˈzæn, seɪˈzan /

noun

1. Paul 1839–1906, French painter.

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Cézanne British  

/ sezan /

noun

1. Paul (pɔl). 1839–1906, French postimpressionist painter, who was a major influence on modern art, esp cubism, in stressing the structural elements latent in nature, such as the sphere and the cone

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Cézanne

Paul Cézanne had an allowance that allowed him to paint, while Theo van Gogh helped to support his brother Vincent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026

MoMA — known for its world-class department of drawings and prints — will be gifted 28 works, with a focus on Cézanne.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2025

Three paintings by Paul Cézanne that a Swiss museum foundation said it had to sell to ward off insolvency fetched $52.5 million, with buyer’s fees, at a Christie’s auction in New York on Thursday.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 10, 2023

The Fauves also freed artists from repetitious systems of paint handling — the dots, dashes and regular brush strokes of their Post-Impressionist predecessors including Seurat, Cézanne and even van Gogh.

From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2023

He’s never been to a museum and seen art from Cézanne to Savage.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera