Paul Cézanne's art is increasing in depth,…

Paul Cézanne's art is increasing in depth, in concentrated richness of color, and in skill of composition as  the nineteenth century comes to a close.

He feels capable of creating a new vision.

Now fifty-nine, he works in and around Aix.

He has always found it difficult to get along with people, and, deeply upset by the death of his mother in 1897, he begins to withdraw gradually from his wife and from the friends of his youth.