Seeing Cezanne Anew

The city of Aix-en-Provence is celebrating Cezanne 2025–a year-long initiative organized around the Musée Granet’s forthcoming exhibition, Cezanne au Jas de Bouffan , the renovation and public opening of the Jas de Bouffan, the artist’s family estate, the creation of the Center for Cezanne Research and Documentation (CCRD), and the reopening of the Atelier des Lauves, the artist’s final studio from 1901 until his death in 1906.

The proposed session “Seeing Cezanne Anew,” co-chaired by Gloria Groom, chair of Painting and Sculpture of Europe and David and Mary Winton Green Curator at the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) and Kathryn Kremnitzer, Paul Cezanne Society Member, will capitalize on the exciting momentum in the wake of Cezanne 2025 to reignite Cezanne studies, past, present, and future, into the modern digital age and beyond. The panel will introduce the AIC’s forthcoming online scholarly collection catalogue of paintings and works on paper by Cezanne–complete with new conservation images and information in addition to art historical essays–which will be available for free online by the time of the conference, as well as the new resources and ongoing research in Aix to maintain and expand the artist’s catalogue raisonne as a living repository, available for free online (www.cezannecatalogue.com). The session will invite contributions that engage with the artist and his work across disciplines, in depth, or in dialogue.