The Art Collection is a newly created and designed art series analyses the historical importance and cultural legacy of famous artists, from Renoir to Cezanne, through Monet, van Gogh, Degas, Klimt, Toulouse-Lautrec, Gauguin and Hieronymus Bosch, with a final volume on religious icons. The books are distinguished by superb illustrations and colour reproductions of representative works, resulting in an essential collection for any art lover at a remarkably affordable price. The ninth title in the series celebrates the work of Paul Cezanne, 1839 -1906, the French post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations for the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. The book is full of examples of Cezanne's work, which convey his intense study of his subjects and his highly characteristic and clearly recognizable planes of colour and brushstrokes that build up to form complex fields.