Cézanne Portraits
January 2nd 2018 How strange to see in just a few days two compelling exhibits of portraiture!
The Cézanne blockbuster at the National Portrait Gallery encompasses some 50 paintings, and I find myself struggling (as I did with Soutine) to determine how much these paintings reveal of their subjects and how much they show us the painter’s distinctive way of seeing a confusing, baffling world.
Or perh
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