Exhibition Catalogues

FRENCH LANGUAGE

Since the Renaissance, artists have practiced self-portraiture. Why choose yourself as the main model of a work? Study of the face, narcissism or work of introspection... More than a simple reflection in a mirror, the self-portrait reveals itself to be a questioning of the artist on his place in society, the nature of his art, his adhesion to the academic movement or its emancipation towards modernity.
Thanks to a set of 70 self-portraits from the years 1830 to 1925, a true history of art takes shape for a century which saw an unprecedented abundance of artistic movements. The faces of Paul Cézanne, Gustave Courbet, Vincent Van Gogh are familiar icons today but many other artists, celebrated in their time but today more confidential, deserve to be rediscovered. Twenty-three authors, art historians, heritage curators, collection managers, reveal the secrets of these portraits.
This exhibition is the result of the exceptional support of the Musée d'Orsay with the loan of 40 works, but also of the collaboration of eight museums in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.

Exhibition at the Crozatier Museum from April 29 to September 17, 2023

French language
142 pages

Éditions Faton