Self-Portrait
1872
Armand Guillaumin
Armand Guillaumin (French, 1841–1927)
Drawings
Self-Portrait, 1872. Armand Guillaumin (French, 1841–1927). Pastel on cream laid paper mounted on cardboard; image and sheet: 37.8 x 31.9 cm (14 7/8 x 12 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift 2020.129 This self-portrait is one of several that Armand Guillaumin created as a young artist during the early 1870s. Around this time, he worked closely with Camille Pissarro and Paul Cézanne, experimenting alongside them with vivid layers of color. Here, Guillaumin juxtaposed dark, dull tones with bright blue and orange to create unexpected optical blends. He meets the viewer's gaze directly, suggesting his intense focus at a period when such experimentation was just beginning to coalesce into the Impressionist movement. Armand Guillaumin came from a working-class background and was employed as a laborer for Paris's Department of Bridges and Roads in order to support his artistic ambitions.
- Maker/Artist
- Guillaumin, Armand
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- pastel on cream laid paper mounted on cardboard
- Dimensions
- Image and Sheet: 37.8 x 31.9 cm (14 7/8 x 12 9/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: signed and dated, lower left, in black pastel: Guillaumin 72
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 2020.129
- Credit Line
- Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift
- Exhibitions
- Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection, Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art, <em>Armand Guillaumin (1841–1927): En famille et sur le motif</em>. Galerie Theirry Mercier, Paris (October 1–31, 2003).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 101A Prints & Drawings
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