1878, Paul Cezanne, The Francois Zola Dam -- Tate Modern (London) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: Art historians think this painting depicts a valley near Aix. The dam that crosses it was designed by the engineer François Zola, Émile Zola's father. As a youth, Cezanne regularly explored the Provençal countryside with his school friends Zola and Jean-Baptiste Baille (1841-1918). This painting was loaned to the Tate Gallery in 1922 - the first time a work by Cezanne had been displayed at a national museum in the UK. The same year, British art critic Roger Fry (1866-1934) praised it as 'one of the greatest of all Cezanne's landscapes.'
1878, Paul Cezanne, The Francois Zola Dam -- Tate Modern (London) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: Art historians think this painting depicts a valley near Aix. The dam that crosses it was designed by the engineer François Zola, Émile Zola's father. As a youth, Cezanne regularly explored the Provençal countryside with his school friends Zola and Jean-Baptiste Baille (1841-1918). This painting was loaned to the Tate Gallery in 1922 - the first time a work by Cezanne had been displayed at a national museum in the UK. The same year, British art critic Roger Fry (1866-1934) praised it as 'one of the greatest of all Cezanne's landscapes.'