'The Phillips Collection to Restore Two Renowned Cézanne Pieces with Bank of America Grant'
“Paul Cézanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire, 1886-1987, Oil on canvas, 23.5 x 28.5 in. , Acquired 1925, The Phillips Collection”“The Phillips Collection has been awarded Bank of America’s 2023 Art Conservation Project Grant for the conservation of two paintings by the influential French artist Paul Cézanne .
“Cézanne’s works are vitally important to the history of art as well as the history of The Phillips Collection. Our founder Duncan Phillips’s appreciation of Cézanne informed, refined, and educated his eye while broadening his vision of modern art,” says Vradenburg Director and CEO Jonathan P. Binstock. “This Bank of America grant ensures we can provide the careful conservation such meaningful pieces deserve.
Cézanne’s Self-Portrait was the artist’s first self-portrait to enter an American museum collection. Phillips bought the painting when he was almost the same age as Cézanne was when he painted it. Phillips described it as being for, “ultimate consummation… nothing in the museum can surpass the subtle, solid, modeling of that head of an old lion of a man, the pride and loneliness of him so directly conveyed.
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