Why Cézanne Found It Impossible To Finish This Portrait

Paul Cézanne asked the art critic Gustave Geffroy to sit for him in 1895, and then subjected him to three months of posing. But no complete painting would ever materialize.

Allison McNearney

Published Dec. 15 2018 9:37PM EST 

Allison McNearney

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