Cezanne et nous is on view at the Grand Palais in Paris, France, from 23 September 2026 to 17 January 2027. Presented in Galleries 3 and 4, the exhibition brings together 174 works: 69 by Paul Cezanne and 105 by 78 other artists, creating a broad history of how his work was discovered, claimed, challenged and transformed from the late 19th century to today.

The story begins in the late 1880s, when artists encountered Cezanne’s paintings at Père Tanguy’s shop in Paris. His compressed space, structural brushwork and refusal of conventional perspective offered younger painters a route beyond Impressionism. The exhibition then follows that inheritance through Gauguin, Matisse, Picasso and Mondrian, before moving into postwar abstraction, hard-edge painting and contemporary artists including Joan Mitchell, Bridget Riley and Peter Doig.

Its distinctive approach is summed up by the idea of “Cezanne seen by others.” Historical displays alternate with direct work-to-work confrontations, making influence feel less like a straight family tree and more like an ongoing argument about what painting can be.

Paul Cezanne (1839–1906) dismantled traditional perspective and rebuilt nature through colour and structure, becoming one of the essential bridges between Impressionism and modern art.

Not simply another Cezanne retrospective. Nearly 180 works investigate what happened after Cezanne, tracing his extraordinary influence from Gauguin and Matisse to Picasso, Mondrian, Joan Mitchell, Bridget Riley and Peter Doig.