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An edition of Madame Cézanne (2014)

Madame Cézanne

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"Paul Cézanne's (1839-1906) portraits of Hortense Fiquet (1850-1922), his wife and the subject of some of his most iconic portraits, rank among the most powerful of their kind in French modernism. Yet, posterity has not been kind to Madame Cézanne. She was called a distraction, blamed for her husband's "lackluster" landscapes, and disdained for her impenetrable expression in the paintings. The reality is more complex, for while Fiquet may not have been the passion of Cézanne's lifetime, she was a willing accomplice, as model, mother of his only son, and unwavering partner against all odds. Madame Cézanne examines this unique relationship within the context of Cézanne as a painter, draftsman, and portraitist, and sheds light on the personal relationship between artist and muse. Featuring all 28 of Cézanne's oil portraits of Fiquet and most of the known drawings, Madame Cézanne both corrects, with insight and compassion, the long-held misconceptions about the Cézannes' unconventional marriage, and shows how Cézanne's portraits of his wife provide a lens through which to better understand his overall technique"--Publisher's website.

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English
Pages
224

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Madame Cézanne
2014, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Table of Contents

Newly seeing the familiar: Paul Cézanne, Hortense Fiquet, and the portraits -- Dita Amory
My great-grandmother Marie-Hortense Fiquet -- Philippe Cézanne
A template for experimentation: Cézanne's process and the paintings of Hortense Fiquet -- Charlotte Hale
The portraits of Madame Cézanne: changing perspectives -- Ann Dumas
Cézanne as draftsman: sketchbooks and graphite drawings -- Marjorie Shelley
Cézanne and Matisse paint their wives -- Hilary Spurling
Re-imagining Cézanne -- Dita Amory and Kathryn Kremnitzer.

Edition Notes

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 19, 2014-March 15, 2015.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-190) and index.

Published in
New York
Copyright Date
2014

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
759.409/034
Library of Congress
N6853.C45 A4 2014, ND553, N6853.C45A4 2014

The Physical Object

Pagination
xv, 224 pages
Number of pages
224

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL30402881M
Internet Archive
madamecezanne0000amor
ISBN 10
1588395464, 0300208103
ISBN 13
9781588395467, 9780300208108
LCCN
2015288196
OCLC/WorldCat
891963574

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