Cézanne, Paul

1. A nineteenth-century French painter. He was an impressionist (see impressionism) early in his career and was a leading figure in the movement toward abstract art.

Example Sentences

The Bloch family — of the H&R Block tax preparation empire — bestowed such a gift in recent years with its donation of 29 prime pieces by masters like Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin and Claude Monet to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo.

From New York Times