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Cézanne’s Letter to Pissarro: Picture Business Isn’t Going Well

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The French master wrote to fellow painter Camille Pissarro to cheer him up, jeer at Monet, and coin the saying that painting isn’t ‘a playing card.’ From the new collection The Letters of Paul Cézanne.

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