Cézanne's 1902 will left everything to his son and nothing to his wife Hortense, and they sold his studio to Vollard for 275,000 francs

Paul Cézanne lived with Hortense Fiquet for years in secret, partly for fear that his father would cut his allowance. Their son Paul was born in 1872, and they married on 28 April 1886, months before his father, a banker, died and left him an income of 25,000 francs a year. The couple then lived apart. In 1902 Cézanne left a will with the Aix notary Maître Mouravit naming his son as sole heir and stating that Hortense would have no claim on the estate. He died of pneumonia on 23 October 1906. Hortense and Paul were summoned from Paris and arrived too late. Within five weeks they had cleared his studio, and within five months they had sold its contents to the dealer Ambroise Vollard for 275,000 francs. Vollard had already obtained about 150 works through the son^†. Paul supported his mother until her death in 1922, and biographer Ruth Butler wrote that she lost the settlement he gave her to gambling. In 2014 the Metropolitan Museum devoted an exhibition to her portraits.