# Madame Cezanne in a Yellow Chair, in Post-Impressionism

Paul Cézanne painted this in 1888–90, aged 54. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Our note:

> Hortense Fiquet, Cézanne’s companion and later his wife, sits with folded hands in a chair upholstered in yellow, wearing a maroon dress, her face calm and unreadable.

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## The work

- Date: 1888–90
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 80.9 × 64.9 cm (31 13/16 × 25 9/16 in.); Framed: 106.7 × 90.2 × 11.2 cm (42 × 35 1/2 × 4 3/8 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1948.54
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Paul Cézanne](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/paul-cezanne), French, 1839–1906

Cézanne divided his life between Paris and his native Aix-en-Provence. Encouraged by his schoolfriend Émile Zola and later by Pissarro, with whom he painted at Pontoise and Auvers in the 1870s, he showed at the first and third Impressionist exhibitions.

13 works in the collection.

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