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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, which is available for purchase in the Corcoran Shop. :: Click here to purchase this catalog online
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