Self-Portrait with Bowler Hat, from 1885-86.
"When things fall apart, you can see what they’re made of. 'Cézanne: Portraits,' a retrospective of some sixty portraits by Paul Cézanne, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., is the most instructive show of the artist I’ve ever seen, because it’s so lurchingly uneven. Wonderments consort with clunkers, often on the same canvas: credible figure and woozy ground, or vice versa. Portraiture was the genre most resistant to Cézanne’s struggle—the inception of 'difficulty' as a notorious feature of modern art, needing specialist explanation—toward new ways of transposing the world’s three dimensions into the two of painting. There are about a hundred and sixty portraits among the thousand or so paintings that he made between around 1860 and his death, of pneumonia, in 1906. They lack the knitted density of his landscapes and figure groups and the stunning integrity of his greatest works, the still-lifes with apples like succulent cannonballs. ..."
New Yorker
NGA: Cézanne Portraits
Guardian - Cézanne unmasked: the shattering portraits that blew Picasso and the Paris avant garde away
amazon
YouTube: Cézanne Portraits: Alastair Sooke goes behind the scenes
2011 August: Paul Cézanne, 2014 November: Cézanne: Landscape into Art, 2015 March: Madame Cézanne, 2017 June: Portraits by Cézanne, 2017 November: Inside Paul Cézanne’s Studio
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