An Evening with Maira and Alex Kalman Presenting Sara Berman's Closet at the Skirball Museum or How I Learned to Mix a Cezanne Grey

 

 

"I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing." Paul Cezanne

Thinking about Paul Cezanne and his luscious use of grey.

 

According to Emile Bernard, Cézanne habitually used no less than nineteen colors: Cobalt Blue, Ultramarine, Prussian Blue – Emerald Green Viridian, Terre Verte – Vermilion, Red Ochre, Burnt Siena, Rose Madder, Carmine Lake, Burnt Lake – Brilliant Yellow, Naples Yellow, Chrome Yellow, Yellow Ochre, Raw Siena – Silver White and Peach Black. This list was made in 1904, towards the end of Cézanne’s life, but from about 1880 onward his palette remained substantially unchanged. — Gerstle Mack, Paul Cézanne

Of Interest

Inside Paul Cezanne's Studio

An investigation of the Materials and Techniques Used by Paul Cezanne

Art History: The Palette of Cezanne  

Why Post Impressionist Paul Cezanne is Known as the "Father of Modern Art" 

A Cezanne Donated to the White House has Never Hung There 

An Evening with Maira and Alex Kalman Presenting Sara Berman's Closet at the Skirball Museum or How I Learned to Mix a Cezanne Grey

Still reading.