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Paul Cézanne’s famous paintings of peasant card players and pipe smokers have long been considered
to be among his most iconic and powerful works. The first mention of the Card Players series comes in
1891 when the writer Paul Alexis visited Cézanne’s studio in Aix-en-Provence and found the artist painting
a local peasant from the farm on his estate, the Jas de Bouffan.. - art-Cezanne.com