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Ginger Pot with Pomegranate and Pears \u2013 one red line across the white<\/h2>\n

A grey-green ginger pot bound about with plaited straw, a pomegranate with its stalk, green and reddish pears and a shallow white dish \u2013 all on a wooden table from which a white cloth falls. The canvas measures 46.4 \u00d7 55.6 cm, was made between 1890 and 1893 and is held by The Phillips Collection<\/strong> in Washington (acc. 0284, gift of Gifford Phillips in memory of his father, James Laughlin Phillips). We draw it out and paint it by hand: a hand-painted painting on canvas<\/strong>, oil on canvas.<\/p>\n

The red stripe that cuts the cloth<\/h3>\n

Across the white cloth, running diagonally down, is a single red stripe. It is neither ornament nor accident: the catalogue records it as a property of the object in its own right \u2013 white cloth with a red stripe. That line picks up the red of the pomegranate and pulls it into the lower part of the work, where there would otherwise be nothing warm at all. Take it away and the scene falls apart into a cold top and an empty bottom.<\/p>\n

The books he did not put away<\/h3>\n

At the upper left, on the edge of a shelf, lies a stack of books. The catalogue lists them separately, as a book. C\u00e9zanne did not, then, dress the table like a stage: what is painted is not an arrangement but the corner of a working room, with books left where they lay and a curtain hanging as it happens to hang.<\/p>\n

A pot wrapped in straw<\/h3>\n

The ginger pot is not a smooth vessel. Plaited straw holds it round the belly, its pale strands crossing over the grey-green glaze; one of the titles the catalogue records reads exactly vase paill\u00e9<\/em>, a straw-wrapped vessel. Behind it, along the upper right edge, hangs a curtain with an olive and brown leaf pattern, folded into a large triangle.<\/p>\n

The work is reserved and quiet \u2013 grey, olive, brown \u2013 until the pomegranate and that red stripe open it. That is precisely why it does well in a room with quiet walls: a bedroom, a study or a library. Among the recorded owners, from December 1898, is Claude Monet<\/strong>, and after him his son Michel; we write about his collecting at greater length on Still Life with Milk Jug and Fruit<\/a>. The fifteen sizes run from 50 \u00d7 42 cm to 180 \u00d7 150 cm, and in-between measurements we stretch to custom size<\/strong>. For a look at it in a frame there is our 3D preview application<\/strong>. Among our hand-painted oil reproductions<\/strong> it goes well with The Kitchen Table<\/a>, which has a ginger pot of the same kind, and Fruit and a Jug on a Table<\/a>.<\/p>\n