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It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth-century art. He's the modern Giotto, someone who shattered one kind of picture-making and invented a new one that the world followed.

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Jerry Saltz
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 19
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