Paul Cezanne (French, 1839–1906)
The Vase of Tulips
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Paul Cezanne (French, 1839–1906)c. 1890
The Vase of Tulips
Paul Cezanne (French, 1839–1906) →Post-Impressionism19th centuryoil on canvasoil paintings (visual works)
Date
c. 1890
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
59.6 × 42.3 cm (23 1/2 × 16 5/8 in.); Framed: 84.5 × 67 × 10.2 cm (33 1/4 × 26 3/8 × 4 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection
The table in this still life of flowers and fruit appears in several of Paul Cezanne’s other paintings, although scholars do not agree about which of the artist’s residences housed this piece of furniture. As is typical of Cezanne’s work, the painting is carefully considered and the composition hard won: the traces of at least three other pieces of fruit (presumably oranges) at lower left and near the vase attest to the artist’s changing opinion as he struggled to make the arrangement work. Even in the final version, there remains a tense spatial relationship between the objects, which seem to float in the picture plane rather than being anchored to the tabletop.
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