Still Life with Flowers and Fruit by Paul Cézanne - c. 1890 - 82.0 x 65.5 cm Alte Nationalgalerie Still Life with Flowers and Fruit by Paul Cézanne - c. 1890 - 82.0 x 65.5 cm Alte Nationalgalerie

Still Life with Flowers and Fruit

Oil on canvas • 82.0 x 65.5 cm
  • Paul Cézanne - January 19, 1839 - October 22, 1906 Paul Cézanne c. 1890

In the 1880s, Paul Cézanne became obsessed with still life. He produced over 170 paintings in this genre, with the same elements but rearranging them to arrive at new formal and painterly answers. On these paintings we always see a wooden table, a tablecloth, fruits (he was a master of fruit still lifes!), and a ginger jar, with the addition here for the first time of a generous bunch of wildflowers—daisies, carnations, and poppies.

The space of the painting is divided into planes, but each is alive in every detail, permeated, dissolved, and reconstituted. The colors are of infinite richness and vibrate in the juxtaposition of finely gradated light values and tones. The objects in Cézanne’s still lifes, whether for daily use, artificial, or natural, are detached from their normal function, but well, who cares?

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