| This small still life, painted in Paris or Céret, is one of several paintings executed
around this time that relate to the convivial life of the French café,
where artists and writers gathered to socialize and exchange ideas. It represents
a view into the café or perhaps a café tabletop seen from above.
A white compote partially obscures a glass, possibly capped with a foamy head
of beer. The fruit bowl and the glass perform a pas de deux of contrasting
forms, textures, and colors, as the graceful compote seems to curtsy before
the ramrod-straight
glass. . . .
:: Laura Coyle, Art historian and Independent Curator |
Text excerpted from A Capital Collection: Masterworks from
the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
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