A fiction autobiography written in the first person.A study of the man who exercised the greatest influence on the development of art as we know it today, beginning in Paris with his rejection at the Academy and ending with his final triumph at the Salon of 1906. written and illustrated by Earl Mayan

"Paul Cezanne is one of the most liberal artists I have evermet... He prefaces each remark with: "Pour moi, it is so andso," but he allows that everyone may be just as honest, justas faithful to nature, according to their own convictions.He doesn't believe that all painters should see in the sameway..." -Mary Cassatt (Stated in a letter to Mrs. Stillman, cf. A.D. Bellskin:"The Graphic Art of Mary Cassatt," New York, pg. 33.)

CHARACTERS PAUL CEZANNE, ARTIST LOUIS AUGUSTE CEZANNE, FATHER, BANKER ELIZABETH AUBERT CEZANNE, MOTHER MARIE CEZANNE, ELDER SISTER ROSE CEZANNE, SISTER HORTENSE FIQUET CEZANNE, WIFE CLAUDE MONET, ARTIST, FRIEND CAMILLE PISSARRO, ARTIST, FRIEND AUGUST RENOIR, ARTIST, FRIEND ARMAND GUILLAUMIN, ARTIST, FRIEND DOCTOR GACHET, FRIEND JULIAN TANGUY, FRIEND JOACHIM GASQUET, FRIEND ANTOINE GUILLEMET, FRIEND FORTUNE MARION, FRIEND PAUL GAUGUIN, ARTIST PAUL ALEXIS, WRITER, FRIEND EMILE BERNARD, ARTIST, FRIEND MAURICE DENIS, ARTIST PHILLIPPE SOLARI, ARTIST, FRIEND VICTOR CHOCQUET, FRIEND ACHILLES EMPERAIRE, ARTIST, FRIEND ALFRED SISLEY, ARTIST FREDERIC BAZILLE, ARTIST GASTON JEUNE BERNHEIM, DEALER CABANER, MUSICIAN FRIEND GUSTAVE CAILLEBOTTE, ARTIST MARY CASSATT, ARTIST CASTAGNARY, CRITIC JEAN BAPTISTE CHAILLAN, FRIEND GEORGES CLEMENCEAU, POLITICIAN MAXIM CONIL, BROTHER-IN-LAW NUMA COSTE, FRIEND DURANTY,CRITIC THEODORE DURET, CRITIC GUSTAVE GEFFROY, CRITIC JOSEPH GIBERT, MUSEUM DIRECTOR LOUIS HATCHETTE, PUBLISHER LUDOVIC HALEVY, WRITER, CRITIC HUYSMANS, CRITIC LEO LARGUIER, FRIEND EDOUARD MANET, PAINTER MARGUERY, FRIEND OCTAVE MIRBEAU, CRITIC ADOLPH MONTICELLI, ARTIST, FRIEND HENRY MODESTE PONTIER, MUSEUM DIRECTOR MARIOUS ROUX, FRIEND

CHAPTER HEADINGS Chapters on line are shown as links. If there is a particular chapter that sounds intriguing to you, let me know, and I'll put it on the site. CHAPTER TITLE 1 Paris, 1863 2 Guillemet And Alexis 3 I Return To Paris 4 Monsieur De Nieuwerkerke 5 Trouble With The Family 6 Zola Makes Progress 7 Back To Paris 8 Manet's "Olympia" 9 The Radicals 10 "Confession De Claude" 11 Loneliness 12 Reluctant Rebels 13 Zola Attacks The System 14 Zola And Pelloquet 15 The Same Old Cezanne 16 Pot De Merde 17 The Mystery Of Art 18 I Return To Paris 19 Zola Betrays A Trust 20 Zola in Trouble 21 Marie Hortense Fiquet 22 Franco-Prussian War 23 Bazille Is Killed 24 Trouble With Hortense 25 Pontoise 26 Forward Steps 27 Doctor Gachet 28 Fear Of My Father 29 Ordeal At Home 30 Paris Again 31 Gustave Caillebotte 32 Breech With Zola Widens 33 Victor Chocquet 34 I Struggle With My Art 35 Things Remain The Same 36 We Return To The Midi 37 "L'Assomoir" 38 The Third Impressionist Exhibition 39 Procrastination 40 My Secret Is Disclosed 41 Things Look Up 42 Back To Paris 43 Zola Attacks Dissidents 44 I Visit Pissarro 45 The Will 46 "L'Oeuvre" 47 I Marry Hortense 48 Death Of Louis-Auguste 49 I Try To Concentrate 50 The Death Of Manet 51 An Egocentric Vision 52 No Fool Like An Old Fool 53 Renoir's Visit 54 Les Vingts 55 Letters To Pissarro 56 The Card Players 57 Ambroise Vollard 58 The Caillebotte Bequest 59 The Body Weakens 60 The Dinner Party 61 Gustave Geffroy 62 Aix-en-Provence 63 Isolation 64 Vollard Gets Organized 65 The Exhibition 66 Joachim Gasquet 67 I Meet Vollard 68 Gasquet And His Friends 69 Physical Decline 70 There Is No Peace 71 My Mother's Death 72 The Wanderer 73 The Jas De Bouffan Is Sold 74 Roger Marx 75 I Build A Studio 76 The Holy Grail Of Art 77 Tolerance 78 Camion Joins Me On Painting Expeditions 79 Young Visitors At The Chemin Des Lauves 80 My New Friends 81 Bernheim De Villars 82 Pissarro Dies 83 The Nature of Things 84 Zola Leaves The Country 85 Old Age 86 Zola's Death 87 Physical Deterioration 88 Letters To My Son   Acknowledgements   Bibliography