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René Huyghe
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Professor of Art, College of France, Paris, 1950–76. President, Council of Museums, Paris, 1974–88. Author of CĂ©zanne; Delacroix ou le combat solitaire; and others.

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Oil painting self-portrait by Paul Cezanne showing a balding man with a beard, wearing a dark coat, set against a patterned background.
Paul CĂ©zanne was a French painter, one of the greatest of the Post-Impressionists, whose works and ideas were influential in the aesthetic development of many 20th-century artists and art movements, especially Cubism. CĂ©zanne’s art, misunderstood and discredited by the public during most of his

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