Paul Cézanne: Madame Cézanne with Green Hat (Madame Cézanne au chapeau vert), Paul Cézanne, 1891–1892, Oil on canvas, Cézanne painted at least 29 portraits of his wife, Hortense Fiquet. Here she appears in a green upholstered chair with her elbow resting on a strangely elongated arm. Fashionably dressed, Hortense leans at a seemingly uncomfortable angle to the left, an awkward posture matched by her stern expression. The thrust-out lower lip and blank stare contrast with her whimsical hat decorated with leaves; its transparent brim reveals her forehead underneath. With its warped perspective a

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