Featuring 21 portraits, landscapes, and still lifes, the exhibition brings together works by painters from the 18th through the 20th centuries. Masterworks on view include MFA icons such as
Paul Cézanne, Madame Cézanne in a Red Armchair (detail), about 1877. Oil on canvas. Bequest of Robert Treat Paine, 2nd.
Madame Cézanne in a Red Armchair (about 1877) in addition to seven rarely seen loans of works by Cézanne from private collections. From Chardin and Corot to Picasso, Sheeler, Braque, and Matisse, “Paul Cézanne: Influence” speaks to the generative power of the conversation between artists across time.