Film on French post-impressionist artist Paul Cezanne to screen at Kate

The Exhibitions on Screen Film Series, hosted by both the Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center and the Florence Griswold Museum, will continue this week with a screening of “Cézanne: Portraits of Life.”

Paul Cezanne, a French post-impressionist artist of the 19th century, is remembered as one of the masters who helped propel, through his use of color and an avant-garde painting style (for the time), modern art as we know it today.

The film will detail the traveling "Cézanne Portraits" exhibition that opened in Paris in June 2017 and in London in October. The exhibit is slated to make its American appearance in Washington D.C.’s National Gallery of Art on March 25. As such, the film will feature interviews with those who know Cézanne’s work best: curators and experts from the National Portrait Gallery London, MoMA New York, National Gallery of Art Washington, and Musée d’Orsay Paris. According to the film’s description, “Cézanne” will take “audiences beyond the exhibition to the places Cézanne lived and worked and sheds light on an artist who is perhaps the least-known of all the impressionists — until now.”

The film will screen at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Kate. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased at www.katharinehepburntheater.org. — Mary Biekert