Still-Life
by CÉZANNE, Paul, Oil on canvas, 65 x 82 cm
Grouped objects (along with the splendours of Proven�al landscape) provided C�zanne with his grandest, most successful affirmation of heroic vision, as pertinent to future Modernism as it was to the continued awareness of French Classicism. The austere still-life of 1871 is in many ways prophetic of Fauvism and Cubism as well as of the late Braque.