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Cezanne Show Beats Record

Florence, July 27 - A show celebrating Florence's bonds with Paul Cezanne is closing with success after breaking the record for tourist spending.

The 150-day show, which ends on Sunday, has brought in about 50 million euros organizers said Friday.

In addition to ticket sales and bookshop purchases of almost two million euros, almost 48 million euros were spent on hotels, restaurants and visits to other museums.

The impact of 'Cezanne in Florence' surpassed the previous record set by a Botticelli show four years ago, organizers said.

They praised the "innovative" features of the show, which revealed the little-known efforts of two Tuscan collectors to spread the French artist's name after becoming acquainted with his talents and becoming devoted fans of his artistry.

The exhibition in Florence's famous Palazzo Strozzi attracted 260,000 people in the five months it has been running - a little under the 2004 Botticelli show but more successful in terms of daily attendance, organizers said.

Egisto Paolo Fabbri (1866-1933) and Charles Alexander Loeser (1864-1928) were both born in the US but settled in Florence. They got to know Cezanne's work while they were living in Paris.

They collected around 50 paintings by Cezanne, who at the time was still viewed as something of a solitary, experimental recluse.

"We wanted to rebuild a puzzle that saw this cosmopolitan city deeply involved in the bloating of avant-garde art at the time," explained Cezanne expert Francesca Bardazzi, one of the show's curators.

The show also includes fine paintings by some of Cezanne's contemporaries, such as Pissarro, Vincent Van Gogh Henri Matisse and John Singer Sargent.

Other than that, there are a number of works by a group of Tuscan painters and sculptors who were influenced by developments in avant-garde art at the time, including Ardengo Soffici, Alfredo Muller, Oscar Ghiglia and Romano Romanelli.

Critics have described Cezanne (1839-1906) as the bridge between 19th-century Impressionism and the new forms of artistic expression that appeared in the 20th century, mainly Cubism.

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