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June, 1971
The usual image of Paul Cézanne is as the visual engineer who fathered modern painting by calmly reconstructing nature with building blocks of color. But behind those cubes and planes burned an intensity of feeling. In his 20s and 30s, Cézanne was so tortured by sexual frustration that he would sometimes swoon before his naked models, then throw them half dressed down the stairs. His pictures of the 1860s seem to writhe and boil and, though eventually he found himself a woman, thinned his paint...
