Episode No. 162 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features curators Dita Amory and Manuela Well-Off-Man.
Paul Cezanne seemed to have no particular romantic attachment to his wife, Hortense Fiquet, the mother of his son Paul. So why did he paint her twenty-nine times? And what do those paintings reveal about Cezanne and his oeuvre?
An exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art titled “Madame Cezanne” includes 24 of Cezanne’s 29 known portraits of Paul’s wife, plus drawings and three rare sketchbooks. Dita Amory, who curated “Madame Cezanne,” discusses the show and what she’s learned from it. The exhibition is on view at the Met through March 15, 2015. The catalogue was published by Yale University Press. Amazon offers it for about $30.
On the second segment, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art curator Manuela Well-Off-Man talks about her exhibition “John James Audubon and the Artist as Naturalist.” It examines the interest Audubon and a host of other American artists, including Mark Catesby and Martin Johnson Heade, had in documenting American wildlife and plants. The exhibition is on view through January 5.
On Episode No. 159 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast, Dallas Museum of Art curator Heather MacDonald discussed how botanical illustration influenced the French still-life tradition. Huntington curator Jennifer Watts discussed Carleton Watkins’ documentation of trees, apparently for pioneering American botanist Asa Gray, was discussed on Episode No. 8.
Air date: Dec. 11, 2015.
Paul Cezanne, Woman Nursing Her Child, ca. 1872.
Paul Cezanne, Portrait of Madame Cezanne, 1890-92. Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Paul Cezanne, Portrait of Madame Cezanne, 1886-87. Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Paul Cezanne, Madame Cezanne in a Red Armchair, ca. 1877. Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Paul Cezanne, Madame Cezanne in a Striped Dress, ca. 1883-85. Collection of the Yokohama Museum of Art.
Paul Cezanne, Madame Cezanne Sewing, ca. 1877. Collection of the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.
Paul Cezanne, Madame Cezanne in a Red Dress, ca. 1888-90. Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Paul Cezanne, Portrait of madame Cezanne in a Red Dress, ca. 1888-90, Collection of the Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo.
Paul Cezanne, Madame Cezanne in a Yellow Chair, ca. 1888-90. Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Paul Cezanne, Madame Cezanne with a Green Hat, ca. 1891-92. Collection of the Barnes Foundation, formerly of Merion, Penn.
Paul Cezanne, Madame Cezanne in a Blue Dress, ca. 1888-90. Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.
Paul Cezanne, Portrait of Madame Cezanne, ca. 1885-87. Musée d’Orsay, Paris, Gift of Philippe Meyer, 2000, on deposit at Musée Granet,
Aix-en-Provence, currently on view at Musée d’Orsay.
Paul Cezanne, Portrait of Madame Cezanne, Ca. 1885-88. Musée d’Orsay, Paris.
Paul Cezanne, Madame Cezanne in the Conservatory, 1891. Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Paul Cezanne, Madame Cezanne Sewing. Collection of the Courtauld Institute of Art, London.
Paul Cezanne, Portrait of Madame Cezanne, ca. 1885. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Museum Berggruen
John James Audubon, Wild Turkey Cock, Hen and Young, 1826. Collection of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Ark.
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