La Parisienne is a painting with almost nothing in it but a woman in blue. No street, no room, no landscape. Only a soft, vague background and a young Parisienne in a blue dress, as if she has stepped out for a moment to show herself to us. She holds a glove, tilts her head slig…
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La Loge takes us into a Paris theatre in the moment before the curtain rises. Two people sit in a narrow box. The woman wears a dress with black and white stripes, pearls shine at her throat, and there are roses in her hair and at her breast. She looks calmly ahead, as if she kn…
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Girls at the Piano is a painting about a quiet afternoon at home. Two girls bend over the music. One, fair-haired in a white dress, is playing. The other, with dark hair and a pink dress, leans beside her and follows the notes. The room is warm, the curtains are soft, and there …
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Bal du moulin de la Galette was born on a hill where the sails of old windmills were still turning. Montmartre, the summer of 1876. Beside the mills lay a dance garden. On Sunday afternoons seamstresses, artists, young workers and girls from the neighbourhood came here. An orche…
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“The Basket of Apples” was painted around 1893 and is one of the best-known still lifes by [[artist:1290|Paul Cézanne]]. He said he wanted to astonish Paris with an apple, and here he does it: simple objects on a table become a painting people have talked about for more than a c…
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“The Boy in the Red Vest” was painted around 1888–1890 in Paris. [[artist:1290|Paul Cézanne]] painted several pictures of this young Italian model, dressed in a red vest and a white shirt. This is the best known of them. In “The Boy in the Red Vest” the boy sits by a table, lea…
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“The Artist's Father, Reading "L'Événement"” was painted in 1866 in Aix. [[artist:1290|Paul Cézanne]] painted his father, Louis-Auguste Cézanne, sitting in a large flowered armchair, absorbed in reading a newspaper. The father is a strict banker who does not believe his son will…
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“Mont Sainte-Victoire and the Viaduct of the Arc River Valley” was painted in 1882–1885. It is one of the many paintings in which [[artist:1290|Paul Cézanne]] painted the mountain above his home town of Aix-en-Provence. He looked at it all his life and painted it more than 80 ti…
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“Mardi Gras” was painted in 1888 in Paris. [[artist:1290|Paul Cézanne]] painted two young men in carnival costumes: his son Paul as Harlequin and his friend Louis Guillaume as Pierrot. It is one of his few paintings of people in motion. In “Mardi Gras” Harlequin wears a red-and…
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“Madame Cézanne in a Red Armchair” was painted around 1877. The painting shows Hortense Fiquet, the companion and later the wife of [[artist:1290|Paul Cézanne]]. She posed for him almost 30 times – more than anyone else. In “Madame Cézanne in a Red Armchair” Hortense sits in a …
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