Madame Cézanne (Hortense Fiquet, 1850–1922) in a Red Dress, 1888–90, Oil on canvas, 45 7/8 x 35 1/4 in. ( 116.5 x 89.5 cm), Paintings, Paul Cézanne (French, Aix-en-Provence 1839–1906 Aix-en-Provence), Of the four portraits that Cézanne painted of his wife wearing a shawl-collared red dress, this is the only one to show her in an elaborately furnished interior. Seated in a high-backed yellow chair and wedged between well-placed props that seem to bend to her form and shift to her weight, Madame Cézanne is the lynchpin of a tilting, spatially complex composition
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Madame Cézanne, Hortense Fiquet, 1850–1922, Red Dress, 1888–90, Oil, canvas, 45 7/8 x 35 1/4, 116.5 89.5 cm, Paintings, Paul, French, Aix-en-Provence, 1839–1906, four portraits, Cézanne painted, wife wearing, shawl-collared red dress, elaborately furnished, interior, Seated, high-backed yellow, chair, wedged, well-placed props, bend, form, shift, weight, lynchpin, tilting, spatially complex, composition
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