Cézanne s love letter to a coastal French paradise, Christies
LEstaque aux toits rouges by Paul Cézanne is one of the finest views of LEstaque, the Provençal fishing village where the artist forged a radical new way of depicting the world around him. Exhibited in 1936 and hidden away ever since, this remarkable piece will finally come back on view as part of The Cox Collection: The Story of Impressionism, taking place at Christies New York on 11 November. While Cézanne is primarily associated with AixenProvence, the village of LEstaque near Marseille was a place that he returned to again and again when he sought sanctuary. His relationship with the village began when he holidayed there as a child with his mother. Then, in 1870, when Cézanne left Paris to avoid conscription into the army following the start of the FrancoPrussian War, he escaped to LEstaque.
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