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Google’s Paul Cézanne Logo

Today is Paul Cézanne’s 172nd birthday and Google is remembering his work with a special Google logo. Paul Cézanne was a painter and artist born in 1839 and died in 1906. Here is a picture of the Google logo:

Cézanne's 172nd Birthday

Google tweeted this morning that the logo you see on the home page was first created as a real oil painting by a Googler and then digitized. Google posted the following picture to show off the real painting.

Today is Paul Cezanne's 172nd bday. To inform our homepage homage, we made a real oil painting first

As Google said, “Today is Paul Cezanne’s 172nd bday. To inform our homepage homage, we made a real oil painting first.”

For more details on Paul Cézanne and the logo see Wikipedia and Search Engine Roundtable.

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