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.

Madame Cézanne

Arts & Photography

Amory, Dita

History & Criticism

Metropolitan Museum of Art

In the summer of 1905, the French painters Henri Matisse and André Derain changed the course of art history with their radical color experiments &nbsp; During the summer of 1905, Henri Matisse and André Derain went on holiday in Collioure, a modest French fishing village fifteen miles from the Spanish border. This groundbreaking book examines how two artists, entranced by the shifting light and stunning imagery of the eastern Mediterranean, laid the groundwork for the movement known as Fauvism (from the French fauve, or "wild beast"). Featuring more than 70 paintings, watercolors, and drawings produced by Matisse and Derain during their stay, the book also brings to life their personal and artistic revelations with 21 of their letters, published here for the first time in English. Vivid and engaging texts detail their daring experiments with color, form, structure, and perspective; the scandal their paintings caused when they were exhibited several months later; and how, despite the jeering remarks from critics, these works changed the course of French painting. Emphasizing as never before the legacy of that summer, this publication shows how the two artists' radical investigations galvanized their contemporaries, and how this strain of modernism, created almost by accident, resonates even into the present day. &nbsp; Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press &nbsp; Exhibition Schedule The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (October 13, 2023-January 21, 2024) The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (February 25-May 27, 2024)

Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism

Dumas, Ann

Nature Observed, Nature Interpreted: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Drawings & Watercolors from the National Academy of Design and

Symmes, Marilyn

Natl Academy of Design in Ny

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