Now is the time to visit Aix-en-Provence: it’s the centenary of Cézanne’s death, and the town has woken up to the fact that people are interested in the dauber they once despised. Not so long ago, they were embarassed to know him.
When the artist died in 1906, his son Paul offered Aix’s Musée Granet some of his father’s paintings, but the director rejected the offer and they didn’t acquire any of his pictures until the ’80s. The museum is making amends now, by staging a splendid retrospective. Read more
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