Grand Palais show · 23 Sep 2026 – 17 Jan 2027
Cezanne et nous
1885–1905
Sixty-nine Cezannes at the Grand Palais, a century of legacy. Eight landmark canvases — players, bathers, portraits and the mountain — from the Grand Palais retrospective.
Echoing the Grand Palais exhibition · Independent archive
Echoing the landmark 'Cezanne and Us' exhibition at the Grand Palais, this independent selection presents eight exhibited masterworks alongside their modern legacy, faithfully sourced from the open collections of the lending museums.
The works
Eight canvases to explore
From the card players to the mountain, via the coffee woman, Madame Cezanne and the boy in red.
WORK 01
Portrait of Madame Cezanne (Orsay)
Madame Cezanne, plain and simple: thirty portraits, no surrender. Hortense Fiquet, sitter for nearly thirty canvases...
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WORK 02
Montagne Sainte-Victoire with Large Pine
The exhibition poster: the mountain as absolute. A pine in the foreground, the violet Sainte-Victoire under an...
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WORK 03
The Boy in the Red Waistcoat (Bührle)
Red as axiom: colour is the subject. A teenager facing us, hands joined, in a scarlet waistcoat that structures the...
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WORK 04
Portrait of Madame Cezanne (Orangerie)
Intimacy, large-scale: ten years of marriage in paint. Seated, hands joined, dark dress with blue highlights: the...
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WORK 05
The Cardplayer (study)
A single player: the laboratory before the masterpiece. The Berggruen study isolates one figure from the final...
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WORK 06
The Card Players
Two men, a game, not a word: the solemnity of the humble. Two players seated in the silence of the Jas de Bouffan, in...
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WORK 07
Woman with a Coffeepot
Neither seated nor standing: the monumental domestic. A servant in a blue dress, hieratic beside a tilting table, in...
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WORK 08
Bathers (Les Grandes Baigneuses, London)
The monumental testament: bodies melted into blue. Nudes in a timeless landscape, blank faces, electric blues: the...
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