Beginning with the restless teenager from Aix who was best friends with Émile Zola, Alex Danchev carries us through the trials of a painter who always remained an outsider. Cézanne: A Life delivers not only the fascinating days and years of the visionary who would ‘astonish Paris with an apple’ – but also a complete assessment of Cézanne’s ongoing influence through artistic imaginations in our own time. He is, as this talk will show, a cultural icon comparable to Marx or Freud.