1899	After a few months in Paris, CŽzanne returns to Aix. His canvases are commanding high prices in the sale of the Chocquet collection.
	18 September: CŽzanne is forced to sell the Jas de Bouffan. 
	Autumn: He returns to Aix to sort out moving and clearing his studio and rents an apartment at 23 rue Boulgeon, where he has a studio built in the attic.
	21 October to 26 November: He exhibits two still lifes and a landscape at the Salon des IndŽpendants.
	End of November to December: Forty of his paintings are exhibited at Vollard’s gallery.
	End of year: Vollard buys his entire studio stock.

1900	May: Three of his paintings are included in the Centenary of French Art Exhibition.
	November to early January 1901: Thirteen of CŽzanne’s painting (twelve sent by Durand-Ruel) are exhibited for the first time in a group exhibition at the Bruno and Paul Cassirer Gallery in Berlin. Maurice Denis painted Homage to CŽzanne (now in the musŽe d’Orsay, Paris).

1901	20 April to 21 May: Two of CŽzanne’s paintings are exhibited at the seventeenth Salon des IndŽpendants.
	16 November: He buys a small country house and land in the Lauves district, north of Aix, and supervises the building of a studio there.

1902	29 March to 5 May: Three of his paintings are exhibited at the Salon des IndŽpendants.
	26 September: He makes a hand-written will, designating his son as his only heir.
	29 September: Zola dies in Paris; CŽzanne is deeply affected by his death.