Cleveland Museum of Art

Self-Portrait

Armand GuillauminLinkedCulture matchlcp-242c1fb61843

Date: 1872
Medium: pastel on cream laid paper mounted on cardboard
Culture: France, 19th century
Department: Drawings
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 286185

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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. Armand Guillaumin came from a working-class background and was employed as a laborer for Paris's Department of Bridges and Roads in order to support his artistic ambitions.

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Credit line: Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift
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