News about Paul Cezanne

Michael Hodges discovers the sights and sounds of Cezanne on his tour, as well as stays at a luxurious spa-hotel set among vineyards and olive trees.

Martin Symington leads a Cezanne-themed walking trail in Aix-en-Provence, the artist's'sundrenched, easygoing' birthplace, ahead of his forthcoming retrospective of the artist's work at Tate Modern in London. It leads him to Atelier de Cezanne, his airy studio on Lauves Hill, which has been 'left pretty much as it was; canvasses and oils, baskets of ripe red apples, whiffs of linseed, and a paint-splattered ladder.' He also admires the view of Montagne Sainte-Victoire, the majestic mountain that appears in many of Cezanne's paintings. 'Lives and breathes Cezanne,' Aix-en-Provence says.

In one of the largest art auctions in history, late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's billion dollar art collection will go under the hammer this November. Christie's said in a tweet that the fabled auction house would sell more than 150'masterpieces' from Allen's foundation. The collection spans more than 500 years of art history, although the work's value is more than $1 billion. The auction is titled: 'Visionary: The Paul G. Allen Collection'.' Allen died in October 2018 at the age of 65, as a result of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a rare form of cancer. He never married and had no children. Allen's net worth was estimated to be over $20 billion at the time of his death. Allen left the majority of his fortune to charity in 2010. This November, Christie's Rockefeller Center will host an auction. The correct date was not known.