This summer the city of Aix-en-Provence will be staging a major event dedicated to the great Impressionist artist, Paul Cezanne (1839-1906), who was born and died in Aix. The Aix countryside and the nearby mont Sainte-Victoire provided him with the setting for a lifetime's work and became the most iconic images of his art.

The exhibition at the musée Granet in Aix, coincides with the opening to the public for the first time of the artist's family home, the Jas de Bouffan mansion, and the renovation of Cézanne’s studio at Les Lauves. More than just a home, this mansion at Jas de Bouffan was a veritable laboratory where Cezanne experimented with his art for almost 40 years, between 1859 and 1899.

130 paintings, drawings and watercolors, of the artist’s Provençal landscapes, his still lifes, bathers, portraits and self-portraits, will be presented from major French museums such as the Musée d'Orsay, as well as from collections in Basel, Chicago, Cambridge, London, Los Angeles, New York, Ottawa, Tokyo and Zurich.