Paul Cézanne and You

Paul Cézanne and You

Cézanne painted this watercolor almost twenty years after Pissarro painted the still life you just saw. The artists did not see each other anymore by this time, but Pissarro went to an exhibition in Paris where he saw this still life.

What do you think Pissarro thought when he saw his old friend’s painting, Three Pears?

Paul Cézanne, French, 1839–1906. Three Pears, ca. 1888–90. Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on cream laid paper, 24.2 x 31 cm. The Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation, on long-term loan to the Princeton University Art Museum (L.1988.62.32)