"Everything, especially in art, is theory developed and applied in contact with nature." - letter to Charles Camoin, 22 February 1903
Cezanne : A Biography
(John Rewald)
A new edition of the classic biography of artist Paul Cezanne, the most complete, fully illustrated survey of the artist's life available, containing 118 color and 152 black-and-white illustrations.
Conversations with Cézanne (Documents of Twentieth-Century Art)
(by Michael Doran (Editor), Paul Cezanne, Julie Lawrence Cochran (Translator))
Michael Doran has gathered texts by contemporaries of Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)-including artists, critics, and writers-that illuminate the influential painter's philosophy of art especially in his late years. The book includes historically important essays by a dozen different authors, including Emile Bernard, Joaquim Gasquet, Maurice Denis, and Ambroise Vollard, along with selections from Cézanne's own letters.