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Follow the tulips’ pointed leaves away from the vase, then compare their diagonals with the table’s slanting edge.
Cézanne revised the arrangement of fruit while making this still life: traces of earlier positions remain near the vase and lower left. The table recurs in other paintings, but the precise setting is uncertain. Flowers, fruit, and furniture become a worked-out arrangement rather than a fixed inventory of objects.
Oil on canvas · 59.6 × 42.3 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Post-Impressionism
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- Museum title
- The Vase of Tulips
- Artist
- Paul Cezanne (French, 1839–1906)
- Date
- c. 1890
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 59.6 × 42.3 cm (23 1/2 × 16 5/8 in.); Framed: 84.5 × 67 × 10.2 cm (33 1/4 × 26 3/8 × 4 in.)
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.