The Barnes Foundation s holdings of works by the renowned Post-Impressionist

Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) 61 oils on canvas and 8 works on paper

are among the most significant in the world. The Barnes Foundation was established in 1922 by scientist, entrepreneur, and educator Dr. Albert C. Barnes, a passionate supporter of European modernism. His virtually unrivalled collection, which can only be viewed at the Barnes Foundation, also includes exceptional paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and many others.

Beginning in 1912, Barnes acquired works by Cezanne from major Paris dealers such as Paul Durand-Ruel and soon ranked among the artist s most prominent

collectors. At the time, this expressed a pioneering taste that Barnes shared with only a small group of enthusiasts, even though Cezanne had been posthumously hailed as a father of modern art at the turn of the 20th century. The Foundation s impressive holdings of Cezannes never before published in a single study in their entirety span every period of the artist s career and include his largest rendition of The Card Players and one of the three versions of The Large Bathers, one of his signal testaments. This landmark volume is both a work on Cezanne and his time, and an impetus for further study of an artist whose oeuvre is at once luminous, austere, challenging, and deeply confounding.

巴恩斯艺术博物馆收藏的后印象派画家保罗·塞尚（Paul Cezanne，1839-1906）的61幅布面油画和8幅纸上作品是世界知名作品。巴恩斯艺术博物馆由科学家、企业家和教育家阿尔伯特·C·巴恩斯博士（Dr. Albert C. Barnes）于1922年成立，他是欧洲现代主义的热情支持者。只有在巴恩斯艺术博物馆才能看到皮埃尔·奥古斯特·雷诺阿、亨利·马蒂斯、巴勃罗·毕加索等人无与伦比的收藏。

从1912年开始，巴恩斯从保罗·杜兰·鲁尔等巴黎大经销商那里收购塞尚的作品，并很快跻身于该艺术家杰出收藏家之列。尽管塞尚在20世纪初被追捧为现代艺术之父，但在当时这表达了巴恩斯只与一小部分爱好者分享的先锋品味。该艺术博物馆拥有令人印象深刻的塞尚作品，这些作品之前从未以单一研究报告的形式出版，跨越了艺术家职业生涯的各个时期，包括他**的《玩牌者》和《大浴者》的三个版本之一，这是他的信号证明之一。这本具有里程碑意义的书既是关于塞尚及其时代的作品，也是进一步研究这位艺术家的动力，他的作品同时具有光辉、朴素、挑战和令人困惑的特点。