Paul Cézanne.

... Paul Cézanne Paul Cézanne was born at Aix-en-Provence in the south of France on Jan. 19, 1839. He went to school in Aix, forming a close friendship with the novelist Emile Zola. He also studied law there from 1859 to 1861, but at the same time he continued attending drawing classes. Against his father he made up his mind that he wanted to paint, and in 1861 joined Zola in Paris. Finally his father agreed and sent financial support and, later, a large inheritance on which he could live without difficulty. In Paris he met Camille Pissarro and came to know others of the impressionist group, with whom he would exhibit in 1874 and 1877. Cézanne, however, remained an outsider to their circle; from 1864 to 1869 he sent his work to the official Salon and saw it consistently disapproved. His paintings of 1865-70 form what is usually called

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