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 ...

What inspired Mary Cassatt’s portraits of mothers? Why did Jackson Pollock paint on the floor? Eureka investigates the origins of artists’ most famous works and techniques, unpacking how great art ...

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 ...

Portraits by Cézanne at the Musée d’Orsay includes 60 psychologically loaded canvases from all periods of the artist’s career. Already a member? Sign in here. We rely on readers like you to fund our ...

The French master wrote to fellow painter Camille Pissarro to cheer him up, jeer at Monet, and coin the saying that painting isn’t ‘a playing card.’ From the new collection The Letters of Paul Cézanne ...

A Cézanne (left) hangs with the Museum of Fine Arts' Gauguin as part of the museum's "Visting Masterpieces" series. (Courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts) In retrospect, the two major late paintings by ...

When things fall apart, you can see what they’re made of. “Cézanne: Portraits,” a retrospective of some sixty portraits by Paul Cézanne, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., is the most ...

The latest Paul Cézanne blockbuster opened its doors at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York yesterday, casting a new light on a little-known figure in the post-impressionist painter’s life: his ...

Qatar just shed its art rookie status for good. The world’s richest nation has purchased Cézanne’s The Card Players for more than $250 million, nearly doubling the previous auction record for a work ...