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Dr. Paul-Fernand Gachet was an admirer of Cézanne's paintings. He had come to live in Auvers-sur-Oise. He had met Cézanne through Pissarro, and persuaded him to come and live nearby in Auvers. Cézanne felt happy in the company of Gachet and his wife. One day, the discussion turned to Manet's painting Olympia, and Cézanne's version, A Modern Olympia, painted three years previously. Cézanne promptly took up his brush and painted a second version, unusually quickly by his standards. This relaxed painting, full of subtle irony, differs from the earlier version, which was stiffer and clumsier; it has a soft, delicate vividness which captures the sensuality of the scene.
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