id:			311854
accession number:	2018.76
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url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.76
updated:		2025-04-29 11:06:20.560000

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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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
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art
	opening date:   2023-01-19T05:00:00
	<i>Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 20-June 11, 2023).

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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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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
	url:		

	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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