Trees
1892-95
Paul Cézanne’s 'Arbres' captures the skeletal beauty of trees with a restless, searching energy typical of his late drawings. Instead of polishing every leaf, he uses quick, overlapping pencil strokes to map out the twisting trunks and reaching branches, almost as if he's thinking out loud on the paper. This sketch from the 1890s reveals how the Post-Impressionist master broke down nature into its basic structures, showing us that for Cézanne, the raw process of seeing was just as captivating as a finished masterpiece.
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