Table of Contents:
  • Pioneering modern painting
  • Still modern?
  • Origins : two foreigners
  • the formation of a new language in painting
  • Dialogues in word and paint
  • Reviewing the past and facing the end
  • Impressionism, post-impressionism : it's all modern painting
  • Plates
  • "Setting the Louvre on fire" : radical technique and ideology in early works
  • Reciprocal gazes : portraits and self-portraits
  • Portraits on paper : drawings
  • Louveciennes/Louveciennes : "to each his own sensation"
  • Still lifes of the 1870s : a classic genre "improperly" painted
  • Building with paint : houses and village streets in Auvers-sur-Oise and Pontoise
  • A turning road : experiments with composition and the palette knife in 1875
  • Separate paths through a shared landscape : the late 1870s and the third impressionist exhibition
  • Contrasts in pure colors : L'Estaque and Pontoise
  • A backward glance : Cezanne reconsiders Pissarro's early work
  • Salut and farewell : a final interaction.