Cézanne Portraits
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (931 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0691177864 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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From the Back Cover"The first book to take on Cézanne's portraits as a whole, this very impressive and important volume will be of interest to specialists and nonspecialists alike. It is superbly written and makes a significant contribution to Cézanne scholarship."--Matthew Simms, author of Cézanne’s Watercolors
John Elderfield is chief curator emeritus of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art. Andrews. His books include Degas and the Nude. Warman is a director of the Cézanne online catalogue raisonné. His books include Cézanne and The Letters of Paul Cézanne. Mary Morton is curator and head of the Department
This major work establishes portraiture as an essential practice for Cézanne, from his earliest self-portraits in the 1860s; to his famous depictions of figures including his wife Hortense Fiquet, the writer Emile Zola, and the art dealer Ambroise Vollard; and concluding with a poignant series of portraits of his gardener Vallier, made shortly before Cézanne’s death.Featured essays by leading experts explore the special pictorial and thematic characteristics of Cézanne’s portraits. They investigate the chronological evolution of his portrait work, with an examination of the changes that occurred within his artistic style and method, and in his understanding of resemblance and identity. A major new study of the portraiture of one of