11-06-2017 23:00 via theartnewspaper.com

Long-neglected portraits by Cézanne arrive in Paris

Unlikely as it seems today, Paul Czannes paintings were reviled for much of his lifetime, his portraits perhaps most of all. Soon after he died in 1906, his dealer and later biographer, Ambroise Vollard, bought the contents of the artists studio in Provence. While the still-lifes, landscapes and bathers found buyersincluding an admiring Henri Matissethe portraits lingered in Vollards stock. An exhibition of 24 of them at his Parisian gallery in 1910 was, until now, the only show ever dedicated t
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