A tender moment between artist and subject

"Cézanne rushed foward: 'You wretch! You have upset the pose! You should sit like an apple. Whoever saw an apple fidgeting?' Motionless as that fruit may be, Cézanne was sometimes obliged to leave a study of apples unfinished. They had rotted."Ambroise Vollard, 1936, on posing for Paul Cézanne.

Cézanne Still Life with a Skull

Or as it will always be for me... ''the obedient model and the fruit that survived him''

Still Life with Plate of Cherries

Here painted with more tendre affection than any of his human subject… except perhaps his dutiful 'Pyramid of Skulls'

And here 'Ambroise Vollard'

That wretched moving cause for poor Cézanne's vexation.

I'm in an odd sort of mood and this fits well with it, that and Cézanne is perhaps my favorite Post-Impressionist painter.

All my love,

Simone