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Cezanne and Us at Grand Palais Traces Artist's Influence from Gauguin to Doig

exhibition · 2026-08-10

Opening at the Grand Palais in Paris from 23 September to 17 January 2027, "Cezanne and Us" marks the first significant showcase of Paul Cezanne's art since the 1995 exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay. This event is a collaboration between the Centre Pompidou, Musée d'Orsay, and Musée de l'Orangerie, presenting 70 works by Cezanne alongside 75 pieces from artists such as Picasso, Matisse, and Mondrian. Curator Jean-Rémi Touzet highlights Cezanne's impact on his peers, mentioning that Paul Gauguin acquired six of his paintings in the 1880s. The exhibition will explore themes of Modernism, Abstract Expressionism, and features two Sainte-Victoire paintings, while a prologue connects Cezanne's The Bather with Peter Doig's 2023 Bather.

Key facts

  • Cezanne and Us runs at the Grand Palais in Paris from 23 September to 17 January 2027.
  • It is the first major Paris exhibition of Cezanne's work since the 1995 Cezanne show at the Grand Palais.
  • The exhibition is organised by the Centre Pompidou, Musée d'Orsay and Musée de l'Orangerie, partly due to the Pompidou's five-year renovation closure.
  • It features 70 Cezanne works and 75 works by artists including Picasso, Matisse, Derain, Tillmans, Mitchell, Zao Wou-Ki, Adnan, Beckmann, Mondrian and Malevich.
  • Paul Gauguin bought six Cezanne paintings in the 1880s, and Émile Bernard wrote the first defending article in 1904 for the Occident journal.
  • The show includes two Sainte-Victoire paintings: Montagne Sainte-Victoire with Large Pine (1887) from the Courtauld Gallery and Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from Les Lauves (1904-05) from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
  • A prologue pairs the Museum of Modern Art's The Bather (around 1885) with Peter Doig's Bather (2023).
  • Curator Jean-Rémi Touzet notes that Vincent van Gogh thought of Cezanne involuntarily while working.

Entities

Artists

Institutions

  • Grand Palais
  • Centre Pompidou
  • Musée d'Orsay
  • Musée de l'Orangerie
  • Salon d'Automne
  • Salons des Indépendants
  • Occident journal
  • Bloomsbury Group
  • Zolotoe Runo
  • Courtauld Gallery
  • Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
  • Museum of Modern Art
  • DACS
  • Adagp Paris
  • Musee National d'Art Moderne
  • Guggenheim
  • Gagosian
  • The Art Newspaper
  • ADAGP
  • Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd.
  • Courtauld
  • musée d'Orsay
  • musée de l'Orangerie
  • RMN
  • MoMA
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Phillips Collection
  • Fondation Beyeler
  • Whitney Museum of American Art
  • Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza
  • musée Granet
  • musée d'Art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne
  • The National Gallery
  • Connaissance des Arts
  • Ville d'Aix-en-Provence
  • La Toison d'or
  • Sonderbund
  • Armory Show
  • Biennale de Venise
  • Salon des Indépendants
  • Grafton Galleries
  • Sécession de Vienne
  • Die Brücke
  • Blaue Reiter
  • Mercure de France
  • musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie
  • Musée national Picasso-Paris
  • Kunstmuseum Den Haag
  • GrandPalaisRmn
  • Succession Picasso
  • Adagp
  • Archives Camoin
  • Beaux Arts Magazine
  • Vilcek Foundation
  • Marsden Hartley Legacy Project
  • Larry Gagosian
  • Musée d'art moderne de Paris
  • Les Abattoirs, Musée – FRAC Occitanie Toulouse
  • The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
  • Centre Pompidou, Mnam
  • Stedelijk Museum
  • L'Impressionniste
  • Salon d'automne
  • Salon des indépendants
  • École nationale des beaux-arts
  • Citadelles & Mazenod
  • Beaux Arts Éditions
  • musée national d'Art moderne
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Courtauld Institute of Art
  • Cercle d'Art
  • Musée Granet
  • Galerie Lelong
  • Galerie 8+4
  • Bernard Chauveau
  • The Jan T. and Marica Vilcek Collection
  • The Vilcek Foundation
  • musée de l'Institut du monde arabe
  • ateliers d'art des musées nationaux
  • Beaux-Arts de Budapest
  • Le Journal des Arts
  • Pavillon populaire
  • Biennale de Gwangju
  • Biennale de Lyon
  • Ellsworth Kelly Foundation
  • Kunsthaus Zürich
  • Sammlung Emil G. Bührle
  • Galerie Magazine
  • Club Artistik Rezo
  • Artistikrezo

Locations

  • Paris
  • France
  • Berlin
  • Germany
  • Moscow
  • Russia
  • London
  • United Kingdom
  • Kansas City
  • United States
  • Delaware
  • Montagne Sainte-Victoire
  • Les Lauves
  • New York
  • Milan
  • Italy
  • Grosvenor Hill
  • Aix-en-Provence
  • États-Unis
  • Washington
  • Russie
  • Cologne
  • Allemagne
  • Riehen-Bâle
  • Suisse
  • Londres
  • Royaume-Uni
  • Madrid
  • Espagne
  • Saint-Étienne
  • Venise
  • Italie
  • L'Estaque
  • Amsterdam
  • Pays-Bas
  • Vienne
  • Autriche
  • Moscou
  • Angleterre
  • La Haye
  • Besançon
  • Corse
  • Piana
  • Auvers-sur-Oise
  • Marseille
  • Mont Sainte-Victoire
  • Jas de Bouffan
  • Plateau de Bibémus
  • Atelier des Lauves
  • Netherlands
  • Toulouse
  • Bibemus
  • Sainte-Victoire
  • Croagnes
  • Provence
  • Bibémus
  • Switzerland
  • Budapest
  • Hungary
  • Saint-Denis
  • Philadelphie
  • Gwangju
  • Corée du Sud
  • Lyon
  • Gulf of Marseille
  • Riehen
  • Basel
  • The Hague
  • Zurich
  • Montmartre
  • 17 av. du Général Eisenhower, 75008

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