Still Life with Soup Tureen 1884

Paul Cézanne's "Still Life with Soup Tureen" (1884) is a quintessential example of his Post-Impressionist style. The painting, now housed in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, showcases Cézanne's mastery of color and form. The composition features a soup tureen, a bottle, a basket of apples, and a patterned tablecloth, all rendered with distinct brushstrokes and a sense of geometric structure. The use of color is both vibrant and subdued, creating a sense of depth and complexity. This work, characteristic of Cézanne's still life paintings, explores the relationship between objects and their surrounding space, revealing the artist's interest in reducing nature to its essential geometric forms.