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Paul C\u00e9zanne, La Montagne Sainte-Victoire au grand pin<\/i>, ca. 1887. Oil on canvas, 66.8 x 92.3 cm. The Courtauld Institute of Art, London. \u00a9 Courtauld.<\/p>\n
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Centre Pompidou :<\/b><\/p>\n
C\u00e9zanne et nous<\/i><\/b>.
This unique exhibition offers a rich, ongoing dialogue between works by Paul C\u00e9zanne<\/b> (1839-1906) and those by artists who, from the late 19th century to the present day, have consistently drawn inspiration from his body of work to reinvent painting. It tells the story of an unparalleled legacy, one that unfolds through an interplay of influence and the assertion of a shared master. The artist became one of the uncontested fathers of Western modern art. In the post-war period, he was still regarded by figures driving a revival of abstraction in Europe and the United States, whether proponents of lyrical and optical abstraction or of hard-edge painting. Some 180 pieces are presented: 70 by C\u00e9zanne and 75 by other artists.<\/p>\n
List of artists presented in the exhibition : Paul Cezanne \/ Etel Adnan, \u00c9mile Bernard, Martin Barr\u00e9, Georg Baselitz, Max Beckmann, Erwin Blumenfeld, Umberto Boccioni, Pierre Bonnard, Georges Braque, (\u2026\u2026\u2026), Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Maurice de Vlaminck, Herman de Vries, Vincent van Gogh, Tom Wesselmann, Robert Wilson, Zao WouKi.<\/p>\n
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Claude Lemand :<\/b><\/p>\n
The Mountain<\/i> by <\/b>Etel Adnan<\/b>.<\/p>\n
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The Mountain<\/i> is emblematic of the most inspired paintings in her abundant production of the last twenty years, with its vibrant and contrasting colors, between the blue of the Mediterranean and the red sun of Lebanon. Although small in size, its composition is vast, planetary. This mountain, tirelessly sung about, painted, and drawn by Etel, is Mount Tamalpais, which she saw when opening the window, adorned with flowerpots on the sill, of her house in Sausalito near San Francisco: it was her landscape of paradise lost, dreamed of, or hoped for. During her Californian exile, she had adopted this universal symbol, which consoled and reassured her in the absence of Mount Sannine, a memory of her childhood and adolescence in Lebanon, which she could see from everywhere and in every season. In her essay Journey to Mount Tamalpais<\/i> (1985), Etel writes: \u201cMount Tamalpais has become my home. For C\u00e9zanne, the Sainte-Victoire<\/i> was no longer a mountain, but an absolute, a painting. She adds: \u201cI need to move around the mountain because I am water. The mountain must remain, and I must leave. Standing on Mount Tamalpais, I participate in the rhythms of the world. Everything seems right. I am in harmony with the stars. For better or for worse, I know, I know.\u201d Etel had become a pantheist over time, like the Lebanese-American poet Khalil Gibran of The Processions<\/i> or The Prophet<\/i>. The Mountain<\/i> is the self-portrait of this luminous woman, firmly anchored to the Earth and her head turned toward the Universe, distant and yet so near.<\/p>\n
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I met Etel Adnan<\/b> (Lebanon 1925-Paris 2021) in Paris in March 1989, at my first exhibition of Benanteur\u2019s paintings, which she and her partner, the artist Simone Fattal, knew and admired. Etel was a great writer and artist, a longtime friend in Paris, a wonderful person. Her feminist activism was clear, determined, calm, and very positive. A universalist wisdom inspired her writings and her fascinating interviews. Her literary and artistic creativity flowed naturally. Aware of her own value, she remained amazed and happy by her late-blooming success. Etel was very loyal and discreetly generous, not only to her many friends, but also to young women artists, writers, translators, gallery owners, and feminist activists. I witnessed this during the last thirty years of her life.<\/p>\n
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In June 2018, Claude and France Lemand donated 26 of her works to the Arab World Institute Museum: 10 historical leporellos, 4 oil paintings (including her iconic 2014 work, The Mountain<\/i>), and 12 large watercolors and ink drawings on paper. To date, this donation constitutes the largest museum collection in the world. Loan requests have come from major museums across Europe: after the Arab World Institute in Paris and the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the Pompidou-Metz, the museums in Munich and D\u00fcsseldorf, the Museum of Modern Art of Paris, the Grand Palais-Centre Pompidou, and others.<\/p>\n
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Etel Adnan, The Mountain<\/i>, 2014. Oil on canvas, 32 x 41 cm. IMA Museum. Donated by Claude & France Lemand. \u00a9 Etel Adnan Estate. Courtesy Galerie Claude Lemand, Paris.<\/p>\n
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Etel Adnan, The Mountain<\/i>, 2015. Oil on canvas, 27 x 35 cm. IMA Museum. Donated by Claude & France Lemand. \u00a9 Etel Adnan Estate. Courtesy Galerie Claude Lemand, Paris.<\/p>\n
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Etel Adnan, Journey to Mount Tamalpais<\/i>, 2008. Leporello in 54 pages. Watercolor on paper, 30 x 567 cm. IMA Museum. Donated by Claude & France Lemand. \u00a9 Etel Adnan Estate. Courtesy Galerie Claude Lemand, Paris.<\/p>\n
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