Morandi lived with his three unmarried sisters in a dingy apartment in the northern Italian town.  He was unmarried and a loner, perhaps even suffering from agoraphobia. His bedroom was his studio. In this hermetic world, each painting took up to two months to complete.

Seeing Cézanne in Aix gives you the double whammy of seeing his work and then immediately observing the landscape that inspired it. After the exhibition we searched for Cézanne's studio, which had  been restored and opened to the public . . .