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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

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