Louis Guillaume

Paul Cézanne · 1879-1890 · oil on canvas

Portrait of Louis Guillaume is an oil-on-canvas portrait painted c. 1882 by the French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Cézanne. Guillaume was the son of friends of the artist and a friend of Cézanne's son, Paul. He is portrayed in a highly sculpted manner with a near-expressionless, uncommunicative face and an immobile, lifeless body. In form and complexity, the painting is ahead of its time. It contains many abstractions, mostly in its presentation of the head and body as simple, solid shapes, a technique later taken up and developed by Henri Matisse.

Image courtesy of The National Gallery of Art.

Available as a made-to-order museum-quality canvas print: stretched or framed.