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Madame Cézanne

Madame Cézanne

Amory, Dita

Hardcover

Series: Metropolitan Museum of Art (Hardcover)

Art HistoryBiographies GeneralGeneral Art

Publisher Price: $45.00

ISBN10: 0300208103
ISBN13: 9780300208108
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
Published: Dec 16 2014
Pages: 240
Weight: 2.70
Height: 1.00 Width: 8.80 Depth: 9.90
Language: English
A new account of Cézanne's complex relationship with his wife, who served as the subject of some of his most iconic portraits

Paul Cézanne's (1839-1906) portraits of Hortense Fiquet (1850-1922), his wife and the subject of some of his 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 as it looks at Cézanne the painter, draftsman, and portraitist. Featuring 24 of Cézanne's oil portraits of Fiquet and most of the known drawings, Madame Cézanne both reevaluates, 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.

Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press

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