A Cezanne Sketchbook: Figures, Portraits, Landscapes and Still Lifes

by Theodore Reff and Paul Cézanne

Book Overview

Exact reproductions of the pages of the two sketchbooks - blank pages and all - with notes about each sketch and its subject. The volume is the first publication of the sketchbooks as two coherent... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486247902
• ISBN13: 9780486247908
• Release Date: February 1985
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.8" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Sweet little sketch book from a master

This is a copy of a sketchbook of Cezanne's pencil sketches. It has a good introduction and explanation followed by a listing of the sketches and then finally all the sketches. Interesting to see if you like to draw, and especially to see if you enjoy Cezanne's paintings.

A delightful sketchbook

"A Cezanne Sketchbook: Figures, Portraits, Landscapes and Still Lifes" is a reproduction of the informal drawings of the artist Paul Cezanne. These are all black-and-white sketches, accompanied by an informative introduction by Carl O. Schniewind. The sketchbook captures Cezanne's monumental human figures, haunting faces, and lyrical landscapes. The really wonderful surprise in the sketchbook is the fact that the artist allowed his young son Paul (b. 1872) to also draw in the sketchbook. Thus we see these charming childish sketches alongside the work of a master artist. When you also consider the many portraits of little Paul by his father in this volume, the "Cezanne Sketchbook" becomes a moving testament to the love that binds a father to his son.