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As much as Paul Cézanne’s Boy in a Red Waistcoat (1888–1890) is a portrait of a wistful young man, this painting is equally an abstract exercise in arranging colors and shapes.
The boy's pose is that of an academic life study, and for some art historians it has recalled the languid elegance of 16th–century portraiture. As a young man in Paris, Cézanne had learned his...
Cézanne painted four oil portraits of this Italian boy in the red vest (in British English, a waistcoat), all in different poses, which allowed him to study the relationship between the figure and space. [3] The most famous of the four, and the one commonly referred to by this title, is the one which depicts the boy in a melancholic seated pose with his elbow on a table and his head cradled ...
Boy in a Red Waistcoat. Image Description. Boy in a Red Waistcoat, 1888-1890. Paul Cezanne. West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 84. This painting evokes the art of the past only to break boldly with its conventions. The boy is posed like an aristocrat in a 16th-century Italian portrait. He looks away from us, resting a hand on his cocked hips.
17 paź 2016 · With the four portraits painted in the late 1880s of an adolescent model who wore a red waistcoat in each of them, Cézanne took advantage of the boy’s apparently spontaneous poses and portrayed him in relaxed, convincing positions that none of his other models had assumed (Le Garçon au gilet rouge, Fig. 8, FWN494-R656).
Boy in a Red Waistcoat, an oil-on-canvas painting by Paul Cézanne created between 1888 and 1890, one of four oil paintings and two watercolors of this red-vested model.
The Boy in a Red Vest series of portraits is a successful example of that principle of combining traditional components and a modern approach to painting. The painting, which is kept at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, is the only one that represents the boy in a standing position.
