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Self-Portrait
About the Artwork
This self-portrait is one of several that Armand Guillaumin created as a young artist during the early 1870s. Around this time, he worked closely with Camille Pissarro and Paul Cézanne, experimenting alongside them with vivid layers of color. Here, Guillaumin juxtaposed dark, dull tones with bright blue and orange to create unexpected optical blends. He meets the viewer's gaze directly, suggesting his intense focus at a period when such experimentation was just beginning to coalesce into the Impressionist movement.
Inscriptions
signed and dated, lower left, in black pastel: Guillaumin 72
Provenance
1872-1927: Studio of the artist [1841-1927], by descent to the artist's daughter, Marguerite Guillaumin 1927-1967: Marguerite Guillaumin [1893-1967], by descent within the Guillaumin family 1967-2003: Guillaumin family collection ?-?: (Thierry Mercier Gallery, Paris, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Keithley, Shaker Heights, OH) ?-2020: Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Keithley, Shaker Heights, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH 2020-: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023). Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 20-June 11, 2023).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Armand Guillaumin (French, 1841–1927)
- Date
- 1872
- Medium
- pastel on cream laid paper mounted on cardboard
- Dimensions
- Image and Sheet: 37.8 x 31.9 cm (14 7/8 x 12 9/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift
- Accession no.
- 2020.129
More by Jean Baptiste Armand Guillaumin in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00011098
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