Paul Cézanne (/seɪˈzæn/ say-ZAN, also UK: /sɪˈzæn/ siz-AN, US: /seɪˈzɑːn/ say-ZAHN,[1][2] French: [pɔl sezan]; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and …