A concise re-edition of a 1962 monograph on the artist Paul Cézanne by Meyer Schapiro. "From his early life in Aix and the continuing conflict with his father, to his evolution as a painter in Paris and, finally, his return home - where the emotionality of his early pictures is transfigured in a resurgence of intense feeling that characterize the work of his last years - the growth of Cézanne, the painter, is traced through a comprehensive consideration of oeuvre and then through a comparison of individual Cézanne paintings to those of other powerful artists." -- from interior flap. Profusely illustrated with 62 illustrations, including 40 full color plates.