by Tina Lepri and Edek Osser

The video by Tina Lepri and Edek Osser tells a fascinating and little known story: between the end of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century there were dozens of paintings by Paul Cézanne in Florence, in the homes of two collectors born in America,  Charles Loeser and his friend Egisto Fabbri of  Florentine origins. Even at the time, few people knew about their passion for the father of modern art. And yet they had more than forty Cézannes, bought in France before the master would be appreciated by experts and art-dealers. The film recounts the events of Fabbri’s and Loeser’s lives on the background of the urban and cultural transformations which were taking place in Florence, through the testimony of Egisto Fabbri’s niece and nephew and of the art historians, curators of the exhibition. The works by Cézanne, which belonged to the two collectors, have been scattered, for decades, around the most important museums all over the world.

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