Cézanne at Museum of Fine Arts

For a century now Cézanne has been seen as an artist who encapsulated the painting of the previous centuries and founded modern art. Throughout his life Paul Cézanne studied the works of his great predecessors. He made direct copies, borrowed motifs and analysed the compositions.

In relation to this first ever exhibition of the Post-Impressionist artist in Hungary explores how Cézanne discovered the art of the old masters for himself and in what way this helped him to create that of his own. The exhibition includes some one hundred of Cézanne’s works displaying unique perspective of Cézanne’s oeuvre.

Numerous compositions which the master drew based on his studies of works by the old masters, displayed next to Cézanne’s paintings, water colours and drawings to clearly demonstrate through the discovery of similarities and differences both the impact of the old masters on Cézanne’s art and the power of his composition.