{"id":84458,"date":"2021-09-02T18:15:22","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T16:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/svetslik.si\/uncategorized\/still-life-with-an-open-drawer\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T12:52:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T10:52:03","slug":"still-life-with-an-open-drawer","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/svetslik.si\/en\/paul-cezanne\/still-life-with-an-open-drawer\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul C\u00e9zanne \u2013 Still Life with an Open Drawer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Still Life with an Open Drawer \u2013 a small canvas, a large lesson<\/h2>\n

This is one of C\u00e9zanne\u2019s smaller still lifes and instructive for exactly that reason: on little more than half a metre of canvas all his methods are gathered \u2013 the tilted table, fruit as solid spheres, a white dish seen from above, and an open drawer that brings unrest into the scene. Our hand-painted reproduction on canvas brings this concentrated subject into your home, painted in oil on canvas.<\/p>\n

A drawer that ought not to be open<\/h3>\n

The open drawer beneath the table top is an unusual choice: it takes the calm out of the scene and makes it a moment rather than an arrangement. With it C\u00e9zanne made the horizontal slab of the table no longer merely a support but a body with depth.<\/p>\n

Fruit that has weight<\/h3>\n

The apples and oranges are painted not with smooth transitions but with a run of short planes meeting at slightly different angles. That is what gives them the look of weight. C\u00e9zanne once said he wanted to astonish Paris with an apple \u2013 a sentence quoted in several versions, which we treat as tradition rather than a literal quotation.<\/p>\n

What you see on the canvas<\/h3>\n

On a dark wooden table stands a white bowl of fruit, with a glass and a knife beside it; a green curtain is suggested in the background. The original is painted in oil on canvas, by the collection\u2019s record measures 41 \u00d7 33 cm and was made at the end of the 1870s.<\/p>\n

A small canvas with a large effect<\/h3>\n

Even a small format we paint entirely by hand, in oil on canvas \u2013 it is not a print. Besides the ten sizes we will paint it to your measurements if you are planning it into a group of paintings on a wall. It is in exactly such a group that this subject works best. Look at the frames in a realistic 3D preview. Among our hand-painted oil reproductions<\/strong> you will find C\u00e9zanne\u2019s other still lifes: Cherries and Peaches<\/a>, Still Life with a Curtain<\/a> and Still Life with Plaster Cast<\/a>.<\/p>\n