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 above:  Camille Pissarro and his wife Julie Vellay in 1877.

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(Mary Evans/Epic/PVDE)

 above:  Camille Pissarro and Paul Cézanne, probably in Pontoise at Pissarro’s, c. 1875.

on canvas, he was open to trying new techniques and experimenting with colors. To begin with, Cézanne worked as student under Pissarro’s tutelage, but over the next 10 years this changed to more of an equal partnership on joint painting excursions. Cézanne’s first exhibition came at the Salon des Refusés in 1863, while the Paris Salon refused his works each and every year between 1864 and 1869. His paintings were considered too controversial, and were ridiculed by critics and mocked by the public as they

After joining the Académie Suisse, Cézanne met Camille Pissarro, an exciting new artist who would become his friend and mentor. Pissarro was an Impressionist painter and encouraged Cézanne to venture out of his dark surroundings and experience the life and nature that was on offer to young talented artists. It was Pissarro’s influence on Cézanne that was to make a huge difference to his work. While Cézanne still preferred working indoors and using the darker tones, which he “violently” executed

(Mary Evans/INTERFOTO/Sammlung Rauch)

 above:  Cézanne had his work repeatedly refused by the Paris Salon.