Still Life with a Ginger Jar and Eggplants

Still Life with a Ginger Jar and Eggplants

Still Life with a Ginger Jar and Eggplants
Artist:Paul Cézanne (French, Aix-en-Provence 1839–1906 Aix-en-Provence)
Date:1893–94
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:28 1/2 x 36 in. (72.4 x 91.4 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Bequest of Stephen C. Clark, 1960
Accession Number:61.101.4

For this commanding still life, with its richly orchestrated play of overlapping shapes, patterns, colors, and textures, Cézanne relied on a stock of familiar objects. The raffia-corded ginger jar, for example, is featured in more than a dozen compositions, including three of comparable verve dating to the early 1890s.

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