Subjective Curvature in Late Cézanne
Norman S. Turner
Toward the end of his life, Cézanne often walked from studio to top Les Lauves. From various positions along crest, he painted plain, Mont Ste.-Victoire, and sky.“There is cavern Plato above,” said mountain Joachim Gasquet, “notice when large clouds pass, shadow that falls [upon it]. … For a long time I was unable paint, did not know how Sainte-Victo ire, because imagined concave (like others who do look) while, observe, it convex.”1
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