Letters on Cézanne by Rainer Maria Rilke is a brief virtual recollection of the fall in the 1970s, when Rilke returned to a Paris gallery to view a Cezanne exhibition. Nearly as frequently, he wrote dense and joyful letters to his wife, Clara Rilke-Westhoff expressing his dismay before the paintings and his ensuing revelations about art and life. Rilke’s sense of kinship with Cezanne provides a powerful and prescient undercurrent in these letters.