Madame Cézanne

Title: Madame Cézanne
Author: Dita Amory
H: 1707009
ISBN: 9780300208108
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 2014
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 240
Section: Art | Movements | Modernism
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Publisher Description: 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

Exhibition Schedule:

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
(11/18/14-03/15/15)