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Several weeks ago Picasso phoned his dealer Kahnweiller in a state of great excitement. He called to say he had just purchased "Cezanne's Mont Saint-Victoire...
...Which Mont Saint-Victoire?" Kahnweiller wanted to know. Cezanne painted the theme many times...
...moment, a collector who has chosen recently and enigmatically to become anonymous, has presented Fogg with the loan of several Cezannes, including one of the late Mont Saint-Victoires. Coincidentally, the museum is host to a number of later French canvasses featuring Picasso, also anonymously offered. The resultant exhibition, then, is a fortuitous affair and a particularly happy one. It makes for many good paintings and a few tangential observations...
This particular version of Mont Saint-Victoire just approaches being over-labored, a flaw to which Cezanne was susceptible. Nevertheless, he stopped in the nick of time. A living spontaneity illuminates this painting. For that matter, two small canvases, a portrait of the artist's son, and a bather, are fresher still and the more marvelous...
Missoula, Mont...