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Origin and history

Paul Cézanne's workshop museum is housed in a small property bought by the painter in 1901, after having had to sell his bastide of the Jas de Bouffan. Cézanne arranges a two-level workspace, designed according to its own plans, with a large room illuminated by a glass window and windows. This rural place, dominant Aix-en-Provence, becomes the frame of his ultimate works, including Les Grandes Baigneux and Le Jardinier Vallier.

After the death of Cézanne, the workshop remained closed for 15 years, preserving its intact content. In 1969, the city of Aix-en-Provence became its owner and transformed it into a museum, highlighting the painter's personal objects: clothing, easel, furniture, and elements of his still life. Unlike a traditional museum, this site exhibits not works, but the tools and environment that inspired its creations.

The bastide, sober in appearance with its facade surmounted by a three-row cornice, also houses copies of prints made by Cézanne after the great masters of the Louvre. The pavilion, classified as a Historic Monument under the name of Pavillon de Cézanne, illustrates the intimacy between the artist and his creative space, now accessible to the public as a living testimony of his artistic process.

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