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Bowl of Fruit and Tankard before a Window

Image credit: The National Gallery, London

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One of Gauguin’s favourite paintings was Cézanne’s Still Life with Compotier, Glass and Apple, (1879–80, Museum of Modern Art, New York), which he acquired for his own collection around 1880. This still life is a homage to that picture, and repeats many of its elements: the fruit, the pottery, the rumpled tablecloth and the angled knife at the lower right. The truncated diagonal brushstrokes and the flattened perspective, in which foreground and distance are collapsed together, are also reminiscent of Cézanne’s work. The narrow strip at the top of the painting – a dense arrangement of buildings – is something of an enigma. The inclusion of a frame suggests that it is a view from a window, but there is no continuity between the clearly defined larger scene and the smaller blurred image next to it.

The National Gallery, London

London

Title

Bowl of Fruit and Tankard before a Window

Date

probably 1890

Medium

Oil on canvas

Measurements

H 50.8 x W 61.6 cm

Accession number

NG6609

Acquisition method

Bequeathed by Simon Sainsbury, 2006

Work type

Painting

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