Cézanne: The Self‐Portraits

Clive Bell, English art critic, wrote of the modern movement in art that “the prime characteristic of the new movement is its derivation from Cézanne”. Cézanne is generally regarded as the founding father of modernism and along with Gauguin and van Gogh, the greatest of the Post‐Impressionist artists. His influence has been acclaimed by artists from Picasso and Matisse to Klee and Kandinsky.

Steven Platzman′s new book, Cézanne ‐ The Self‐Portraits is the first published study of his self‐portraits. Cézanne painted his own image continuously throughout his life and this book, through an examination of this work, aims to show...