Paul Cézanne, 1871 - Portrait of Anthony Valabrègue - fine art print

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When a jury member at the Paris Salon of 1866 first saw Paul Cézanne's portrait of the journalist and critic Antony Valabrègue, he exclaimed that the portrait was not painted with a knife but with a pistol. Although the Salon refused him admission, Cézanne continued to paint many portraits of his friend, including the present example, thought to have been painted around 1869 to 1871.

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. In another portrait of his friend made four years earlier, the coarse, almost violent appearance created by Cézanne's technique led Valabrègue to complain in a letter to the writer Zola: "He has given me such a fierce complexion that it reminds me of the statue of Champfleury when it was stained with squashed blackberries."

Description of the over 140 year-old artpiece

This 19th century masterpiece was painted by Paul Cézanne. Besides, this piece of art is included in the The J. Paul Getty Museum's collection in Los Angeles, California, United States of America. We are pleased to state that this public domain artpiece is supplied with courtesy of The J. Paul Getty Museum.Creditline of the artwork: . Moreover, alignment is portrait and has a ratio of 1 : 1.2, which means that the length is 20% shorter than the width. Paul Cézanne was a male painter from France, whose style was primarily Impressionism. The European artist was born in 1839 and deceased at the age of 67 in 1906 in Aix-en-Provence.

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