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Paul Cézanne: Mont Sainte-Victoire Mont Sainte-Victoire, oil on canvas by Paul Cézanne, c. 1902–06; in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.

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Quick Facts Post-Impressionism, in Western painting, movement in France that represented both an extension of Impressionism and a rejection of that style’s inherent limitations. The term Post-Impressionism was coined by the English art critic Roger Fry for the work of such late 19th-century painters as Paul Cézanne, Georges Seurat, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and others. All of these painters except van Gogh were French, and most of them began as Impressionists;...

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