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accession number:	2018.76
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Portrait of Paul Sérusier, 1893. Émile Bernard (French, 1868-1941). Gouache and watercolor on thin beige wove paper; sheet: 41.9 x 27.7 cm (16 1/2 x 10 7/8 in.); secondary support: 52.2 x 36.7 cm (20 9/16 x 14 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of William Kelly Simpson 2018.76

title:				Portrait of Paul Sérusier
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creation date:			1893
creation date earliest:		1893
creation date latest:		1893
current location:		
creditline:			Bequest of William Kelly Simpson
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culture:	France, 19th century
technique:	gouache and watercolor on thin beige wove paper
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - French
type:		Drawing
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catalogue raisonne: 

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CREATORS

* Émile Bernard (French, 1868-1941)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 41.9 x 27.7 cm (16 1/2 x 10 7/8 in.); Secondary Support: 52.2 x 36.7 cm (20 9/16 x 14 7/16 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	inscribed, lower left, in diluted ink: Portrait de Paul Séruzier / Emile Bernard / Florence 1893
	translation:	
	remark:		

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Paul Sérusier [1864-1927], Morlaix
	date: 1893-?
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	Marcel Guérin [1873-1948], Paris
	date: ? - by 1950
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	possibly Marguerite Sérusier [1879–1950], Châteauneuf-du-Faou
	date: ? - ?
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	Henriette Boutaric [?-1983], Paris
	date: ? - probably 1983
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	(sale, Christie's, London, Dec. 9, 1998, no. 210, sold to William Kelly Simpson, Katonah, NY)
	date: 1998
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	William Kelly Simpson [1928-2017], Katonah, NY, bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1998 - 2018
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	Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2018 -
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fun fact: 


digital description: 
Throughout his career, Émile Bernard made numerous portraits of his friends and colleagues, including this image of the painter Paul Sérusier. The two artists traveled to Florence in 1893 to study Renaissance painting and exchanged portraits of one another while they were there. Bernard portrayed his friend formally, presenting him frontally alongside a notation that the drawing was made during his Italian travels.

wall description: 

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Chasse, Charles. <em>Le mouvement symboliste dans l’art du XIXe siècle</em>. Paris: Floury, 1947.
	page number: 	Reproduced: n.p.
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	Sérusier, Paul. <em>ABC De La Peinture</em>. Paris: Libraririe Floury, 1950.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 63n1
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	Colombier, Pierre du. “Qu’est-ce que les Nabis?” <em>Le Jardin des arts </em>8 (June 1955): 503.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 503
	url:		

	Rewald, John. <em>Post-Impressionism: From Van Gogh to Gauguin</em>. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1956.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p. 455
	url:		

	Guicheteau, Marcel. <em>Paul Serusier</em>. Paris: Side, 1976.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 76
	url:		

	Pickvance, Ronald. <em>Gauguin and the School of Pont-Aven</em>. London: Apollo, 1994.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 146
	url:		

	<em>Impressionist &amp; Nineteenth Century Art</em>. London: Christie's, 1998.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 126, no. 210
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	Delannoy, Agnes, ed., <em>József Rippl</em>-<em>Rónai</em>: <em>le Nabi hongrois</em>, Exh. Cat. Paris: Somogy, 1999.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 65
	url:		

	Luthi, Jean-Jacques, and Armand Israël. <em>Émile Bernard, 1868–1941: Fondateur de l’école de Pont-Aven et précurseur de l’art moderne</em>. Paris: Éditions de l’amateur, 2003.
	page number: 	Mentioned: 76, 243
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	Luthi, Jean-Jacques, and Armand Israël. <em>Émile Bernard: instigateur de l'école de Pont-Aven, précurseur de l'art moderne: sa vie, son œuvre: catalogue raisonné</em>. Paris: Editions des Catalogues raisonnés, 2014.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 52
	url:		

	Brown, Heather Lemonedes. “Introducing the Nabis.” In <em>Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, Paris, 1889-1900</em>. Mary Weaver Chapin and Heather Lemonedes Brown, 1-19. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2021.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced; p. 1
	url:		

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IMAGES

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full:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2018.76/2018.76_full.tif