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Portrait of Paul Sérusier

Portrait of Paul Sérusier

1893
(French, 1868–1941)
Sheet: 41.9 x 27.7 cm (16 1/2 x 10 7/8 in.); Secondary Support: 52.2 x 36.7 cm (20 9/16 x 14 7/16 in.)
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

The subject of this portrait, Émile Bernard, was known as "the Nabi with the red beard" for his distinctive facial hair.

Description

Throughout his career, Émile Bernard made numerous portraits of his friends and colleagues, including this image of the painter Paul Sérusier. The two artists traveled to Florence in 1893 to study Renaissance painting and exchanged portraits of one another while they were there. Bernard portrayed his friend formally, presenting him frontally alongside a notation that the drawing was made during his Italian travels.
  • 1893-?
    Paul Sérusier [1864-1927], Morlaix
    ? - by 1950
    Marcel Guérin [1873-1948], Paris
    ? - ?
    possibly Marguerite Sérusier [1879–1950], Châteauneuf-du-Faou
    ? - probably 1983
    Henriette Boutaric [?-1983], Paris
    1998
    (sale, Christie's, London, Dec. 9, 1998, no. 210, sold to William Kelly Simpson, Katonah, NY)
    1998 - 2018
    William Kelly Simpson [1928-2017], Katonah, NY, bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
    2018 -
    Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Chasse, Charles. Le mouvement symboliste dans l’art du XIXe siècle. Paris: Floury, 1947. Reproduced: n.p.
    Sérusier, Paul. ABC De La Peinture. Paris: Libraririe Floury, 1950. Mentioned: p. 63n1
    Colombier, Pierre du. “Qu’est-ce que les Nabis?” Le Jardin des arts 8 (June 1955): 503. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 503
    Rewald, John. Post-Impressionism: From Van Gogh to Gauguin. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1956. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 455
    Guicheteau, Marcel. Paul Serusier. Paris: Side, 1976. Mentioned: p. 76
    Pickvance, Ronald. Gauguin and the School of Pont-Aven. London: Apollo, 1994. Mentioned: p. 146
    Impressionist & Nineteenth Century Art. London: Christie's, 1998. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 126, no. 210
    Delannoy, Agnes, ed., József Rippl-Rónai: le Nabi hongrois, Exh. Cat. Paris: Somogy, 1999. Mentioned: p. 65
    Luthi, Jean-Jacques, and Armand Israël. Émile Bernard, 1868–1941: Fondateur de l’école de Pont-Aven et précurseur de l’art moderne. Paris: Éditions de l’amateur, 2003. Mentioned: 76, 243
    Luthi, Jean-Jacques, and Armand Israël. Émile Bernard: instigateur de l'école de Pont-Aven, précurseur de l'art moderne: sa vie, son œuvre: catalogue raisonné. Paris: Editions des Catalogues raisonnés, 2014. Mentioned: p. 52
    Brown, Heather Lemonedes. “Introducing the Nabis.” In Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, Paris, 1889-1900. Mary Weaver Chapin and Heather Lemonedes Brown, 1-19. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2021. Mentioned and reproduced; p. 1
  • Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 20-April 30, 2023).
  • {{cite web|title=Portrait of Paul Sérusier|url=false|author=Émile Bernard|year=1893|access-date=29 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2018.76