Where can you see Paul Cézanne in New York?

At the Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Card Players and Mont Sainte-Victoire and the Viaduct of the Arc River Valley. At the Museum of Modern Art: The Bather. At the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum: Man with Crossed Arms. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.

What is Paul Cézanne's most famous work in New York?

The Card Players, of 1890 to 1892, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Three farm workers at a table and a fourth standing to watch, in the smocks they wore on his father's estate. Nothing happens, and the picture has the weight of a monument.

When and where was Paul Cézanne born?

On 19 January 1839, at Aix-en-Provence, France. Paul Cézanne died on 22 October 1906, at Aix-en-Provence, France, aged about 67.

What is Paul Cézanne known for?

The Met bought his View of the Domaine Saint-Joseph in 1913, the first Cézanne in an American museum. The Bather hangs at the start of MoMA's collection. The Met's Card Players is one of five versions. Paul Cézanne was a French painter, of Post-Impressionism.

Painter, 1839 to 1906

Paul Cézanne

The first work by Cézanne to enter an American museum was bought by the Met from the Armory Show of 1913. MoMA, founded sixteen years later, opened with an exhibition that put him first.

Born: 1839, Aix-en-Provence, France
Died: 1906, Aix-en-Provence, France
Movement: Post-Impressionism
In New York: 4 works in 3 museums

Where to see Paul Cézanne in New York

Each work with the museum it hangs in. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art2 works

The Card Players
1890 to 1892
Three farm workers at a table and a fourth standing to watch, in the smocks they wore on his father's estate. Nothing happens, and the picture has the weight of a monument.
Mont Sainte-Victoire and the Viaduct of the Arc River Valley
1882 to 1885
The mountain he painted more than sixty times, seen from his sister's house across a valley, with the trunk of a pine cutting the view in two.

The Museum of Modern Art1 work

The Bather
about 1885
A young man in bathing drawers walks towards us, hands on hips, eyes down, in front of a landscape as bare as a wall. Cézanne worked from a photograph.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum1 work

Man with Crossed Arms
about 1899
A sitter with folded arms and a twisted, guarded face. The two sides of the head do not quite agree, which the Cubists noticed.

The life of Paul Cézanne

Paul Cézanne was born in Aix-en-Provence in 1839 and spent most of his life there, painting the same mountain, the same apples and the same few sitters over and over. He wanted, he said, to make of Impressionism something solid and lasting, like the art of the museums. Painters of the next generation, Picasso and Matisse among them, called him the father of them all.

That is the place the Museum of Modern Art gives him. Its first exhibition, in November 1929, was of Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat and Van Gogh, and The Bather still stands near the door of its galleries.

What to know

The Met bought his View of the Domaine Saint-Joseph in 1913, the first Cézanne in an American museum
The Bather hangs at the start of MoMA's collection
The Met's Card Players is one of five versions

Born: 19 January 1839, Aix-en-Provence, France
Died: 22 October 1906, Aix-en-Provence, France

Paul Cézanne: common questions

Where can you see Paul Cézanne in New York?: At the Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Card Players and Mont Sainte-Victoire and the Viaduct of the Arc River Valley. At the Museum of Modern Art: The Bather. At the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum: Man with Crossed Arms. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.
What is Paul Cézanne's most famous work in New York?: The Card Players, of 1890 to 1892, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Three farm workers at a table and a fourth standing to watch, in the smocks they wore on his father's estate. Nothing happens, and the picture has the weight of a monument.
When and where was Paul Cézanne born?: On 19 January 1839, at Aix-en-Provence, France. Paul Cézanne died on 22 October 1906, at Aix-en-Provence, France, aged about 67.
What is Paul Cézanne known for?: The Met bought his View of the Domaine Saint-Joseph in 1913, the first Cézanne in an American museum. The Bather hangs at the start of MoMA's collection. The Met's Card Players is one of five versions. Paul Cézanne was a French painter, of Post-Impressionism.