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From: Artforum
Date: 20080501
Author:Pincus-Witten, Robert

John Lees

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Claude Lantier, a fictional painter, fated to never complete a work, whom Emile Zola depicts in his novel l'Oeuvre (1886), has long been assumed to be based on Cézanne, a characterization that led to an irreparable break between the supreme artist of the modern era and the great realist writer who was Cézanne's closest boyhood friend and earliest champion. One cannot help but remember this painful fait divers now that John Lees, one of the grandest eccentrics of modern American painting, is at last having a show.

Lees, both as painter and draftsman, has ...

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