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Dimensions. 47.5 cm × 57 cm (18.7 in × 22 in) Location. Musée d'Orsay, Paris. The Card Players is a series of oil paintings by the French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Cézanne. Painted during Cézanne's final period in the early 1890s, there are five paintings in the series. The versions vary in size, the number of players, and the setting ...
- 47.5 cm × 57 cm (18.7 in × 22 in)
- 1894–95
- Oil on canvas
- Paul Cézanne
The Card Players. Paul Cézanne French. 1890–92. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 826. Cézanne was in his fifties when he undertook a painting campaign devoted to giving memorable form to a subject that inspired the likes of Caravaggio and Chardin. He was determined from the start—as we see in this sturdy Provençal scene—to ...
The Card Players, 1890-92 by Paul Cezanne. Of the three versions of The Card Players Cezanne created, this little painting is the last and undoubtedly the best; it is the most monumental and also the most refined. The single shapes are simpler, but the relationships are more varied. The extraordinary conception of the left player is the result ...
Jan 25, 2023 · In The Card Players (c. 1890 – 1892) Paul Cézanne depicts four men, three sitting at a small square table playing a game of cards and one standing to the left in the background watching the card game unfold before him. To the right background are four smoking pipes hanging on the wall and a curtain to the edge of the composition.
- Alicia du Plessis
- Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)
- ( Author And Art History Expert )
- c. 1890-1892
Dec 6, 2023 · Paul Cézanne, The Card Players , c. 1892–95, oil on canvas, 60 x 73 cm (The Courtauld Gallery, London) A New Yorker cartoon exploits this drift to humorous effect. In it, Robert Mankoff lets still-life elements and game-playing details flood back into one of the artist’s two-figure works. He fills up the card players’ arms and table with ...
Sep 29, 2021 · A more condensed version of this painting is The Card Players (1890-1892) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, that has only four figures and a less detailed background. The other three paintings in the series are two-figure compositions, depicting two card players sitting opposite each other.
Oct 14, 2023 · The Card Players, by the post-Impressionist artist Paul Cezanne, are a series of five paintings depicting Provencal workmen studiously playing cards. They were painted in oil from the early to mid-1890s. They vary in number of sitters and colours used and the later paintings are simplified concentrating on the essentials.
