What We Know About the ‘Cézanne 2025’ Celebrations in Aix-en-Provence

Paul Cézanne was once summarily dismissed by a museum director as a “gribouillard de province” (a provincial scribbler). Hardly true—he showed at the Salon des Refusés in 1863 and Salon des Indépendants in 1901, and he hung around with Pissarro and Renoir.

Throughout most of next year, the bucolic southern French town of Aix-en-Provence, where the Post-Impressionist painter was born and died, is bringing the artist’s legacy to life with a series of events, exhibitions, restorations and...