Shop art print and framed art Fleurs et fruits by Paul Cézanne

Flowers and Fruit is an oil on canvas measuring 35 x 21 cm, painted by Paul Cézanne around 1880 and now in the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris. This painting has a curious and mysterious history: it was part of another painting that remained unfinished. The original painting was divided into two parts by an art dealer between 1904 and 1914, and Paul Guillaume bought the half called Fleurs et fruits from the French gallery owner Ambroise Vollard in 1931. Many years after Paul Guillaume's death, his widow Dominique, who loved Cézanne's paintings, bought this oil without knowing that it was the other half of Flowers in a Blue Vase (also in the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris). It was curator Michel Hoog who finally managed to piece together the history of these two paintings in 1992. Rewald places this work around 1880, but the succinct modelling of the fruit, surrounded by a slight outline, might suggest a later date or, at the very least, indicate that the painting was painted again at a later date. This still life is a painting of great quality and very similar to Flowers in a Blue Vase: same vase, same flowers, same simplicity of composition. The scene is simple but well thought out: the fruit is arranged by size and the range of colours goes from orange to blue. Here again, the background is [...]

 

This artwork is a painting from the modern period. It belongs to the post-impressionism style.

 

« Fleurs et fruits » is kept at Musee de l'Orangerie, Paris, France.

 

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