THE COLLECTION
Still Life with Fruit Dish
Paul Cézanne (French, 1839-1906)
1879-80. Oil on canvas, 18 1/4 x 21 1/2" (46.4 x 54.6 cm). Fractional gift of Mr. and Mrs. David Rockefeller
69.1991
Cézanne to Picasso: Paintings from the David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection
July 17–August 31, 2009
Still life was an important genre to Cézanne, who made approximately two hundred such paintings over the course of four decades. In Still Life with Fruit Dish he created a shallow, compressed space that flattens the sculptural volumes of dish, glass, and fruit. This painting was a prized possession of the artist Paul Gauguin, who described the picture as "an exceptional pearl, the apple of my eye." It was only when he needed money for medical care that Gauguin unhappily parted with it.
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