ISBN10: 1855147319, ISBN13: 9781855147317, [publisher: National Portrait Gallery Publications, United Kingdom, London] Softcover Paul Cezanne painted almost 200 portraits, including twenty-six of himself and twenty-nine of his wife. This book explores the portraiture of this remarkable artist, whom both Matisse and Picasso called the father of us all, and accompanies a major international exhibition the first devoted exclusively to this aspect of Cezannes work. This book, like the exhibition it accompanies, looks at the special pictorial and thematic characteristics of Cezannes portraiture practice, including his creation of complementary pairs and multiple versions of the same subject. The chronological development of the artists portraiture is also explored, with an examination of the changes that occurred with respect to his style and method, on the one hand, and his understanding of resemblance and identity, on the other. The extent to which particular sitters inflected the characteristics and development of his practice is also considered. Cezanne Portraits features works that mutually inform each other to reveal arguably the most personal, and therefore most human, aspect of his art, and one that has hitherto received surprisingly little attention. They range from Cezannes earliest surviving self-portraits, dating from the 1860s, through to his final portraits of Vallier, the gardener at his house near Aix-en-Provence, made shortly before the artists death in ...