CEZANNE Paul 1839 - 1906 (France) Paul Cézanne (January 19, 1839 - October 22, 1906), the painter of and from Aix-en-Provence, is the bridge from Impressionism to Cubism. In paintings such as the 1885 Mont Sainte-Victoire and 1887 Mme Cézanne we can see the inspiration for the Cubists and even the Fauvists. Cezanne began with the light, airy painting of the Impressionists and gradually solidified it and made it more architectural. His painting began to concentrate on solid forms and on the modelling of these forms in colors. To early 20th Century Modernists, Cézanne was the founder of modern painting. Henri Matisse called him "the father of us all". Cézanne and the important novelist Emile Zola were friends from childhood and youth, but broke in later life over Zola's fictionalized depiction of Cézanne in the novel L'Oeuvre (The Masterpiece, 1886). In recent years, a painting by Cézanne sold for US$ 60.5 million, the fourth highest price in history for a painting. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from Wikipedia.