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Portrait of Antony Valabrègue

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Paul Cezanne

1869-71 · Oil on canvas

Dimensions 60 × 50.2 cm

Collection: Doria Collection

Valabrègue (1844-1900) was a poet and art critic, as well as a friend of Cézanne who painted him many times. "For this painting, Cézanne used a palette knife rather than brushes. With the spatula-like instrument, he applied paint in thick, successive layers, giving the surface a complex, rough-and-smooth texture. He then used the knife to squeeze the paints together so that they mixed directly on the canvas. In this fashion Cézanne moved the paint around, eliminating contour lines and instead creating impastoed areas of color, as if sculpting in paint." (Getty). This painting was presumably in the collection of Count Armand Doria and then with certitude of his son's until 1913. It is now at the Getty Museum. Valabrègue (1844-1900) était un poète et critique d'art proche de Cézanne qui en a peint plusieurs portraits. Sur ce tableau, Cézanne utilise un couteau à palette pour appliquer la peinture en d'épaisses couches successives qu'il presse ensuite de sorte que les couleurs se mélangent directement sur la toile. Les contours sont ainsi effacés et le tableau prend une apparence à la fois rugueuse et lisse, avec des empâtement presques sculptés. Cette oeuvre a vraisemblablement fait partie de la collection du Comte Armand Doria avant de rejoindre celle de son fils François jusqu'en 1913. Elle est à présent au Musée Getty.

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Portrait of Antony Valabrègue (1869-71) by Paul Cezanne, oil on canvas, from the Doria Collection.

About Paul Cezanne

(19 January 1839 - 22 October 1906) Paul Cezanne was a French painter. He was born in Aix-en-Provence, in the south of France, and died of pneumonia there. The artistic career of Paul Cézanne lasted more than forty years, from roughly 1860 to 1906.

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