Bouilloire et fruits
c. 1888-1890 Christie's
About this artwork
This still life by Cézanne features a metallic kettle and an assortment of fruits arranged on a draped white cloth, exploring form, volume, and color relationships. It exemplifies his method of building forms with planes of color and small, deliberate brushstrokes.
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Paul Cézanne often painted still lifes, sometimes spending hundreds of sittings on a single arrangement, striving to analyze and reconstruct nature through geometry. He famously aimed to "treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone," an approach that prefigured Cubism. His unique method of depicting objects from multiple viewpoints within a single painting profoundly influenced the development of modern art.
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Bouilloire et fruits
Paul Cezanne, c. 1888-1890
