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Claude Lantier

Painter

Son of Gervaise, brother of Étienne and Jacques. The tormented genius painter who pursues an impossible masterpiece, sacrificing his marriage, his child's life, and finally his own sanity to his art. A barely veiled portrait of Paul Cézanne — and of the Impressionist generation's struggles. He ends by hanging himself before his unfinished canvas.
Unkempt, large-handed, with burning eyes and paint-stained clothes — an unmistakable figure of the consumed, bohemian artist.

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