Artistic contemporaries of Paul Cezanne hailed him with labels like “the greatest of us all,” and the French Post-Impressionist was the focus of multiple major exhibitions in the 20th century with his iconic works assuring sizeable visitor turnouts.
But is Cezanne (1839-1906) still relevant today in an art world with so many competing styles and socio-political agendas, and can his name on an art-museum banner in 2022 still attract large crowds?
