Praise for Cézanne Remembered

Gasquet invented a Cézanne to match the other great dreamers and aphorists of modernism, the Prousts, the Nietzsches, the Van Goghs. He made up a figure as sad and impressive as Kafka's "K". No one reading Gasquet's pages need resist the illusion. It helps so much with the paintings Cézanne did
TJ Clark

One of the most quietly controversial of all 20th-century books on a great painter ... Gasquet's book on Cézanne is fascinating to read
The New York Times

Christopher Pemberton's introduction reveals an astonishing understanding of both writer and subject. While other artists took up particular aspects of Cezanne's work, Pemberton had a fuller sense of the undivided whole of that master's reverence for the created world
Guardian


About the Author

Joachim Gasquet (1873-1921) was a writer and an art critic, as well as a personal friend of the artist Paul Cézanne. Gasquet's father Henri was a schoolboy friend of Cézanne's in Aix-en-Provence, and in his later years Cézanne painted impressive portraits of both father and son. Joachim himself, a young man with a consuming interest in literature and Provencal culture, first came to know Cézanne in 1896. On numerous occasions prior to Cézanne's death in 1906, he saw and talked with the artist he so much admired.

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