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Thanks to local guides ‘Secrets d’Ici’ for pointing out that ‘Free First Sundays’ don’t restart until 1st October, by which time the ‘Passion d’Art’ at the Musée Granet will have finished.  What a shame!

So visitors will have to stump up 8 euros entry.  But it’s an interesting exhibition and art-lovers will no doubt

‘Paysage de Sicile; by Nicolas de Stael, one of the treats on show at the Musee Granet.

think it’s worth while.

The next exhibition at the museum will be ‘Cézanne at Home’ which opens on 20th October.  It will bring together the Granet’s

collection of 15 works (oils, watercolours, drawings), with a new oil painting on loan from the Collection of Henry and Rose Pearlman:  ‘Vue vers la route du Tholonet pres du Chateau Noir’.

This exhibition will include, courtesy of the family of Charles Camoin, six letters written by the artist to the young Camoin who was stationed in Aix while on military service.

And a final piece of Cézanne-news, an American curator, John Spike, from the Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, VA, has identified a painting as being an early work by Cézanne. It is a copy of an image by Tintoretto that the artist admired, and looks nothing like the style we are accustomed to.  Have a look  – and do read the fascinating methodology employed to identify it.  http://www.societe-cezanne.fr/2017/07/23/une-affaire-a-suivre/