Life Studies: Artist's Model
Monday, November 7, 2005
Paul Cézanne, Auvers, Panoramic View, 1873/75. Art Institute of Chicago. Photo Rachel Cohen.
This essay on the ruptured friendship of Émil Zola and Paul Cézanne appeared in The New Yorker in 2005 and is available to subscribers.
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