Paul Cezanne / Signed Autograph Letter / Art / Painting / Colours / 1903

  
Autograph letter signed "paul cézanne" to octave mirbeau aix [en-provence], 11 July 1903, 2 pp. In-8° slot at the lower margin to the central fold. Rare and remarkable letter from Cezanne on his art. "My dear mirbeau, I have just received a letter from my son who made me aware of your interest in me.

Your point of moral support is too precious for me to thank you. I continue to seek to develop by design. [sic] and the color the idea of art that I think I have. I will no doubt be given in spite of my advanced age to see you again and it will be a great joy for me to be able to cause with you this art data that concerns so many good spirits. [he makes several repentances in the formula of politeness] please.

Paul Cezanne [he adds to the back of the first sheet] with all my thanks." As far as we know, the painter and the critic met only once, in Giverny, at claude monet, on November 28, 1894. At the invitation of monet, who took the initiative of the meeting, mirbeau responded enthusiastically, but not without some fear.

Indeed, he knows with reputation the savage character of the Provençal painter: "we will go Wednesday, it is understood [.] But, sapristi, that Cezanne does not forget to come, for I have a violent desire to know him". Yet, despite the many visits of Cézanne to the Paris region in the following years, no other encounters are attested, which is not without surprise.

The legendary timidity coupled with the painter's savagery, which ran away from contacts and showed, in society, a disconcerting malfeasance, undoubtedly helps to explain that he did not apparently make any effort to see his admirer again. This letter is officially motivated by a missive from his son, paul, who had to meet mirbeau in circumstances we do not know. This was a new opportunity to draw his benevolent attention to artistic research: "drawing and colour," "the idea of art that I think I have.

" Thus Cézanne did not reveal to his friend zola, more than twenty years earlier, in a letter "I always ingenuity to find my pictorial way". Painter in perpetual quest for an absolute through primitive and organic contact, Cézanne has the features of the tortured artist eternally dissatisfied, so that he ends up destroying an important part of his work.

Cézanne's letters alluding to his very rare art, so he may have had difficulty in clearly formulating, by means of words, tediousness linked to an evolution of his aesthetic sensitivity rather than rationalizable theories. Still it is that he manifests his keen desire to see mirbeau again. Cézanne appears as a continuation of the French classical spirit as well as a radical innovator through the use of geometry in portraits, still lifes and the many landscapes he paints. He is considered the "father of modern art". Stargardt, Berlin, 21-22 March 2006, No.

C lebensztejn, paris, l'échoppe, 2011, p. 62 "unpublished letter from cezanne to mirbeau", p. Mirbeau, n° 14, 2007, p. This item is in the category "collections\letters, old papers\autographs\others". The seller is "laurent-autographs" and is located in this country: fr.

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