For those who love the early Impressionist landscapes this stunning reproduction of Paul Cézanne’s Landscape at Auvers is a must for the collection. The original study was completed in 1873 and was among the three oil paintings Paul Cézanne offered up to the public at the very first Impressionist exhibition – And it received the warmest reception. Art critic Emile Zola exalting this work in particular.

In Landscape at Auvers Cézanne sheds his previous somewhat melancholy palette for a brighter and bolder arrangement of color: Forms are no longer dedicated to realism – Instead we see the structured forms of Cubism beginning to take place. Indeed, Landscape at Auvers is a landmark oil painting. Cézanne made the Provencal landscape immortal depicting broad panoramic views of the landscape which rarely involving any human activity. His studies were directed at the light, pure color and form of nature.

Cézanne felt that color and light could never be truly reproduced with oil paint. To which, he proceeded to bridge the world between nature and art by creating a way to capture such perfection within the limitations of the medium. Landscape at Auvers is bold oil painting that strives for perfection through interpretation. The original Landscape at Auvers by Cézanne is on permanent exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Even so, with such a carefully executed and accurate reproduction available it can be on permanent exhibition at home!