Cezanne Portraits

Paul Cezanne painted almost 200 portraits, including twenty-six of himself and twenty-nine of his wife. This book explores the portraiture of this remarkable artist, whom both Matisse and Picasso called `the father of us all', and accompanies a major international exhibition -the first devoted exclusively to this aspect of Cezanne's work. This book, like the exhibition it accompanies, looks at the special pictorial and thematic characteristics of Cezanne's portraiture practice, including his creation of complementary pairs and multiple versions of the same subject.