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Pierrot and Harlequin Framed Print
Framed with Mat •
15x18 inches
In his youth, Cezanne loved the carnival, which led to all kinds of festivities in his home town of Aix-en-Provence. The youngsters would enthusiastically take part in all the masquerades, pageants and processions. Perhaps it was in remembrance of those happy days that Cezanne asked his son to pose for him dressed as Harlequin and proudly leading an imaginary procession, while Louis Guillaume, in Pierrot's costume, follows in his footsteps and looks as if he is about to steal Harlequin's baton. According to Paul, this scene was painted in Paris in the studio in the rue du Val-de-Grace, which Cezanne occupied from late 1888. Before beginning this particular work, Cezanne had produced many drawings inspired by the commedia dell'arte and three separate paintings of Harlequin. Style: Post-Impressionism Technique: oil Material: canvas Gallery: Pushkin Museum of Fine Art, Moscow, Russia |
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Pierrot and Harlequin Framed Print
Framed with Mat •
15x18 inches
In his youth, Cezanne loved the carnival, which led to all kinds of festivities in his home town of Aix-en-Provence. The youngsters would enthusiastically take part in all the masquerades, pageants and processions. Perhaps it was in remembrance of those happy days that Cezanne asked his son to pose for him dressed as Harlequin and proudly leading an imaginary procession, while Louis Guillaume, in Pierrot's costume, follows in his footsteps and looks as if he is about to steal Harlequin's baton. According to Paul, this scene was painted in Paris in the studio in the rue du Val-de-Grace, which Cezanne occupied from late 1888. Before beginning this particular work, Cezanne had produced many drawings inspired by the commedia dell'arte and three separate paintings of Harlequin. Style: Post-Impressionism Technique: oil Material: canvas Gallery: Pushkin Museum of Fine Art, Moscow, Russia
Paul Cézanne (1839 - 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist whose work laid the foundations of the transition from 19th-century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century.Cézanne often repetitive, exploratory brushstrokes are highly characteristic and clearly recognizable. He used planes of color and small brushstrokes that built up to form complex fields.