The writer Henri Perrucho, known for his monographs on the life and work of French impressionist artists, successfully combines in his novels the fictional liveliness of the narrative with the reliability of the facts, trying to understand the peculiarities of the work of the painters and the era. In his monograph about the famous artist Paul Cézanne, the author traced in detail the artist’s creative path and the process of his professional formation. The book uses unique documents, memories of contemporaries, letters.