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Who did Cézanne call 'only an eye, but what an eye'?
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Which pair reportedly called Cézanne 'the father of us all'?
Answer: Picasso and Matisse
Why: Picasso later bought a château on the slopes of Mont Sainte-Victoire, the mountain Cézanne painted so often.
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Which three shapes did Cézanne tell painters to see in nature?
Answer: Cylinder, sphere, cone
Why: All three of his shapes have curved surfaces, while a cube has only flat faces.
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Which newspaper does Cézanne's father read in an 1866 portrait?
Answer: L'Événement
Why: That year the paper ran Émile Zola's reviews attacking the Salon jury's bias against modern painters.
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Where was Cézanne born, and where did he die?
Answer: Aix-en-Provence
Why: His last studio, on the Lauves hill just north of the old town, is now a museum.
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Who gave Cézanne his first solo show, in 1895?
Answer: Ambroise Vollard
Why: Cézanne was already 56 years old when that first show of his own opened.
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How many times did the official Paris Salon accept Cézanne?
Answer: Once
Why: He got in under the label of pupil of a friend on the jury, the painter Antoine Guillemet.