Still life with a curtain, jug and bowl of fruit

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Still life with a curtain, jug and bowl of fruit
Paul Cézanne , 1893-1894
Oil on canvas
Private ownership, USA

Still life with a curtain, jug and bowl of fruit (in French Rideau, cruchon et compotier ) is a painting by the French impressionist Paul Cézanne , which he completed in 1894.

description

The still life shows a wooden table with a jug, a tablecloth, three lemons, five oranges, three pears and ten apples. Furthermore, you can see a fruit bowl on the table in which some of the fruits just mentioned are. A blue curtain protrudes into the background from the left. The wallpaper is brown-gray.

auction

The painting achieved great fame when it was auctioned on May 10, 1999. An anonymous collector from the USA bought it for $ 60.5 million. Sotheby’s auction house only valued the painting at $ 15 million. It is Cézanne's most expensive painting to date, as the selling price of The Card Players is not known. Still life with a curtain, jug and bowl of fruit was one of a series of works owned by the US multimillionaire, private collector and newspaper publisher John Hay Whitney (1904–1982), who owned one of the most important art collections in America.