Summer Group Show

28 June – 30 September 2025

Exhibition of the gallery’s artists and guests

Guided tours every Thursday at 11am

Galerie Ars Longa

Cocktail Friday, July 4, 6pm to 10pm.

November 1895. Paul Cezanne’s career took a turning point with his first monographic exhibition, organized by Ambroise Vollard, the art dealer and gallery owner emblematic of the twentieth-century avant-garde, at 37, rue Laffitte. While the exhibition met with mixed reactions from the public, for artists and collectors it was a veritable revelation. With it, Cezanne became a revered master and the precursor of a new school, inspiring many of his contemporary followers with the sight of his works. “In the paintings we glimpsed, we found I don’t know what attraction, like a mysterious call to the future, and the source of the qualities of which the talent of many artists who came after him is made”, said Natanson Thadée in December 1895 in La Revue blanche.

Yet despite his success, Cezanne never considered himself a “star”. Full of doubts, he was, above all, a hard worker, believing, right up to his death, that he had never been able to achieve his dream as a painter. A paradox is created between his desire for recognition and his indifference.

With the city of Aix coming alive to the rhythm of Cezannian painting, the Galerie Ars Longa, with a selection of exceptional artists and works will examine the starification of artists through the example of the illustrious painter, a veritable textbook case, tracing what made up this emblematic figure of contemporary art from his lifetime to the present day, between innovation, tenacity and savoir-faire.

Photo credit : Eleonora Strano for Charlotte Vitaioli, Les Consolations, Centre Culturel Prince héréditaire Jacques de Monaco, Beausoleil, 2025.

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