Cézanne's Card Players (The Courtauld Gallery) - Softcover

Wright, Barnaby

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1907372113 ISBN 13: 9781907372117

Publisher: Paul Holberton Publishing, 1900

Synopsis

Paul Cézanne’s famous series of paintings of peasants playing cards has long been considered among his most important and powerful works. The image of seated peasants, still and seeming silent, concentrating on their game of cards, can be seen as the human counterpart to the landscapes of Cézanne’s home countryside, notably Montagne Sainte-Victoire, which held such iconic significance for him.

The two most ambitious versions show three card players, with spectators; in the other three the subject is distilled into a simpler form, with two figures facing each other, seen in profile, as in the Courtauld masterpiece.

This catalogue accompanies a landmark exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery, London, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, that will be the first to bring together the majority of these remarkable paintings alongside a magnificent group of Cézanne’s closely related portraits of Provençal peasants and rarely seen preparatory oil sketches and drawings.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

This catalogue is the first to bring together the majority of Cezanne's remarkable peasant paintings alongside a magnificent group of his closely related portraits of Provençal peasants and rarely seen preparatory oil sketches and drawings.

About the Author:

Barnaby Wright is The Courtauld’s Daniel Katz Curator of 20th Century Art.

About this edition

• Publisher: Paul Holberton Publishing
• Publication date: 1900
• ISBN 10: 1907372113
• ISBN 13: 9781907372117
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160