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| | Cezanne |
 | | Cezanne's numerous self-portraits, which tend to be unsparing, emphasize his bald pate, scruffy beard, occasional hat squashed on his head, and baleful look. |
 | | Trying to realize his unique "vision," Cezanne worked furiously to reduce natural objects to their basic form, to represent volume and modeling by means of color alone, without the use of shadows or perspective, and to achieve pictorial unity when combining flat and three-dimensional effects in the same composition. |
 | | Cezanne's most frequent model - she posed for over a score of painted portraits; she appears most often seated in a chair, hands in lap, looking serenely, or with an air of boredom, at the viewer. |
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