CEZANNE, PAUL

(1839-1906), French painter, was 6. at Aix-en-Provence, France, where he also d. The s. of a banker, he was never under the nece it; of struggling against poverty, althoug his pictures did not sell during the greater part of his life time. It was Zolo who induced him to go to Paris to study art. He spent the earlier years of his manhood in the French capital, where he came in contact with all the most noted men of his country, but pa ed his later years, at his home in southern France. He exhibited in 1874 and 1877, and it was discouragement due to the ridicule that the critics heaped on_his pictures, that induced him to leave Paris and to retire to the south of France. Here he worked and developed an extraordinarily original style, which has since exercised much influence on the more radical of the younger generation of painters, and today is considered everywhere to be amongst the greatest of creative artists. The story of Cezanne’s life is told in town Estremadura, Portugal. Pop.