Paul Cézanne was one of the artists who exhibited at the first of the Impressionist exhibitions, but then broke away from the movement. Unlike the Impressionists, he was not content with merely finding ways of capturing the appearance of a moment in time. (He once said of Monet that he was 'only an eye, but my God, what an eye!')

He spent much of his career working in isolation in the South of France, struggling to find a new method of painting based on the modulation of colour, rather than the modelling of forms. He was uncompromising in his work, and continued developing his technique despite his lack of commercial success.

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