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Cezanne Show In Chicago Includes Still Life Owned By Gaugin. The Paul Cezanne retrospective, opening at the Art Institute (May 15-September 5) and then traveling to London, “will be the artist’s largest monographic exhibition since the 1990s,” reports the Art Newspaper. “The Chicago presentation of ‘Cezanne’ includes ninety oil paintings, forty watercolors and two sketchbooks… The curatorial team, led by Gloria Groom (Chicago) and Natalia Sidlina (Tate), is focusing on Cezanne’s finest works, to tell the story of the development of his art.” His “Still life with Fruit Dish” (1879-80) “was once owned by Paul Gauguin, who described it as ‘an exceptional pearl, the apple of my eye.'”