For the first time in its history, the Fondation Beyeler will devote a monographic exhibition to Paul Cezanne (1839–1906), a pioneer of modern art and a prominent artist in its collection. The exhibition focusses on the French painter’s last and most significant phase, showcasing Cezanne at the height of his powers: enigmatic portraits, idyllic scenes of bathers, viscerally evocative landscapes of his native Provence, and endlessly novel depictions of his favourite motif, the Montagne Sainte-Victoire. Working in his studio in the South of France, Cezanne brought his masterful intuition to establishing a complex and powerful tension between colour, light and form, constructing revolutionary images that have inspired generations of artists to this day. Bringing together around 80 oil paintings and watercolours from celebrated institutional and private collections, the exhibition allows viewers to experience Cezanne’s groundbreaking art in all its richness and splendour. It shows an artist who invented painting anew with each stroke of the brush – establishing himself as “the father of modern art” or, as Pablo Picasso put it, “the father of us all”.