Still Life with Open Drawer, 1879-1882 by Paul Cézanne

Still Life with Open Drawer, by Paul Cézanne depicts a modest arrangement of apples and pears heaped on a blue-rimmed plate beside a drinking glass and a shallow bowl, set against a striped wall hanging and the open drawer of a chest of drawers. As a French Post-Impressionist painter (1839-1906), Cézanne became a crucial bridge between Impressionism and Cubism, and this small kitchen still life shows him moving away from Impressionist spontaneity toward the structural, considered method of building form through color and repeated brushwork that defined his mature practice.

Artist: Paul Cézanne (French, 1839-1906). Date: 1879-1882.

Still Life with Open Drawer, 1879-1882 by Paul Cézanne. Post-Impressionist Oil Painting Reproduction Canvas Print.