Cézanne exhibition draws the crowds in Zurich
The Cézanne exhibition, which has just closed its doors in Zurich, has proved to be among the most successful ever staged by the city's fine arts museum.
Officials said on Monday a total of 193,000 people attended the exhibition, which began in May and was due to have closed at the end of July. It was, however, extended for two weeks because of popular demand.
In the past 12 years only two shows at the fine arts museum have surpassed that figure. The record is held by a Klimt exhibition, which attracted 250,000 visitors in 1992.
The Cézanne exhibition was the first exhibition of its kind to show a large number of unfinished paintings by the French artist. It cost SFr2.7 million to stage.
Regarded as the most influential artist of his generation, Cézanne had a reputation as a perfectionist who destroyed many paintings which he judged unsatisfactory.
The exhibition aimed to show that the so-called “unfinished” paintings, which survived, remained uncompleted for aesthetic rather than technical reasons.
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