Cézanne: A Study of His DevelopmentThe late Roger Fry was an art critic of unequalled perception and influence. One of his missions was to work for a better understanding of the Impressionist school and, above all, to claim for Cézanne (1839-1906) the great place that was rightfully his. In CÉZANNE Fry wrote a critical analysis which in many aspects has never been surpassed. He achieved with conspicuous success a two-fold aim: to show the essential development of the painter’s genius and to approach his work as it really is; as Fry himself words it, to detect the profound difference between Cézanne’s message and what we have made of it.” The result is a book, couched in Fry’s most lucid, penetrating manner, which is of great technical value to the painter and student, and which offers to the layman an illuminating demonstration of the essential nature of Cézanne’s art. |
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