Still Life in Watercolors
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Plate 4<br />
Paul Cezanne<br />
The Green Pot, 1885-87<br />
Watercolor and graphite<br />
on paper, 22 x 24.7 cm<br />
(8 11 /i6 x 9 3 /4 <strong>in</strong>.)<br />
Paris, Musee du Louvre<br />
his famous watercolor from the mid-i88os<br />
T of a little green-glazed Provencal jug<br />
suggests some of the anthropomorphism, <strong>in</strong> this<br />
case a k<strong>in</strong>d of human bravado, that animates<br />
even Cezanne's most modest still-life subjects.<br />
Its roundness and the configuration of its<br />
two handles suggest a complacent little figure,<br />
with belly outthrust and arm akimbo, stand<strong>in</strong>g<br />
s<strong>in</strong>gularly aga<strong>in</strong>st the studio wall for all the<br />
world like a human model. Further, it represents<br />
Cezanne's earlier, more traditional method<br />
of pencil<strong>in</strong>g and model<strong>in</strong>g an object and then<br />
fill<strong>in</strong>g out its volume <strong>in</strong> watercolor.<br />
33<br />
THE BIOGRAPHY OF OBJECTS