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The Courtauld Gallery
Goya to Impressionism
Masterpieces from the Oskar Reinhart Collection
The Chateau Noir
Cezanne
c.1885

The Courtauld Gallery
Goya to Impressionism
Masterpieces from the Oskar Reinhart Collection
Mont Sainte-Victoire
Cezanne
c.1902-6

The Courtauld Gallery
Goya to Impressionism
Masterpieces from the Oskar Reinhart Collection
Bathers
Cezanne
c.1900-06

The Courtauld Gallery
Goya to Impressionism
Masterpieces from the Oskar Reinhart Collection
The Pilon du Roi
Cezanne
1887-88

The Courtauld Gallery
Goya to Impressionism
Masterpieces from the Oskar Reinhart Collection
Still Life with Faience Jug and Fruit
Cezanne
c.1900

Rideau, Cruchon et Compotier is an oil on canvas painting created c. 1893 to 1894 by French artist Paul Cézanne. It is a formal still life composition that displays Cézanne's exploration of form, balance and symmetry in objects. On 10 May 1999, the painting was sold at Sotheby's auction for $60.5 million, making it the most expensive still life painting ever sold at an auction.
Cézanne explored various genres throughout his artistic career, including landscapes and portraiture, but repeatedly returned to the subject of still life. It was a genre that historically had been disregarded in art as unimaginative, yet Cézanne challenged the establishment by focusing on everyday objects. He was particularly drawn to fruit, which he used to explore the correspondence between objects and the harmony and balance of composition. Although his objects appear to have been placed randomly, the images were carefully constructed to experiment with perspective.
Cézanne was fascinated by the exploration of optics in art. His still life paintings were a study in the geometric forms of objects and also in the shifting ways that our eyes view them. He attempted to depict objects from various perspectives to capture the complexity of the visual image. He wrote that, "Painting from nature is not copying the object, it is realising one's sensations".
Cézanne's distinctive brushwork and distortion of the subject eventually influenced new art styles during the 20th century such as Cubism.

This was my first visit to the Barnes Foundation in Center City Philadelphia. I had previously visited the original location in nearby Merion Station, just beyond the city limits. After Dr. Barnes died, there was a lengthy struggle to break his will, which finally succeeded, and led to the relocation of the museum in a new building.

Dr. Barnes had a unique philosophy about art and the display of paintings and other artwork. I was doubtful that his approach could be replicated outside of his original site. However, I was pleasantly surprised that the display in the new location does justice to the original, despite my own personal concerns about overturning his wishes as expressed in his will.

These three pictures show his style of displaying his art. Each is a single wall in a different room of the museum. The collection is amazing, dominated by paintings by Renoir, Cezanne, and Picasso, with Renoir's work most heavily represented in these images. His collection also had some Renaissance work, and there are some rooms where 15th century works are mixed in with 19th Century European art.

In the rooms shown here, you can also see some metalwork and some furniture, though it is not possible to see much of the detail, since I was trying to show the overall layout, not the individual works. Many of the paintings can be seen on the Barnes Foundation website.

I have had the opportunity to go to many of the world's great art museums and can easily say that there is nothing quite like the Barnes Foundation.

This was my first visit to the Barnes Foundation in Center City Philadelphia. I had previously visited the original location in nearby Merion Station, just beyond the city limits. After Dr. Barnes died, there was a lengthy struggle to break his will, which finally succeeded, and led to the relocation of the museum in a new building.

Dr. Barnes had a unique philosophy about art and the display of paintings and other artwork. I was doubtful that his approach could be replicated outside of his original site. However, I was pleasantly surprised that the display in the new location does justice to the original, despite my own personal concerns about overturning his wishes as expressed in his will.

These three pictures show his style of displaying his art. Each is a single wall in a different room of the museum. The collection is amazing, dominated by paintings by Renoir, Cezanne, and Picasso, with Renoir's work most heavily represented in these images. His collection also had some Renaissance work, and there are some rooms where 15th century works are mixed in with 19th Century European art.

In the rooms shown here, you can also see some metalwork and some furniture, though it is not possible to see much of the detail, since I was trying to show the overall layout, not the individual works. Many of the paintings can be seen on the Barnes Foundation website.

I have had the opportunity to go to many of the world's great art museums and can easily say that there is nothing quite like the Barnes Foundation.

This was my first visit to the Barnes Foundation in Center City Philadelphia. I had previously visited the original location in nearby Merion Station, just beyond the city limits. After Dr. Barnes died, there was a lengthy struggle to break his will, which finally succeeded, and led to the relocation of the museum in a new building.

Dr. Barnes had a unique philosophy about art and the display of paintings and other artwork. I was doubtful that his approach could be replicated outside of his original site. However, I was pleasantly surprised that the display in the new location does justice to the original, despite my own personal concerns about overturning his wishes as expressed in his will.

These three pictures show his style of displaying his art. Each is a single wall in a different room of the museum. The collection is amazing, dominated by paintings by Renoir, Cezanne, and Picasso, with Renoir's work most heavily represented in these images. His collection also had some Renaissance work, and there are some rooms where 15th century works are mixed in with 19th Century European art.

In the rooms shown here, you can also see some metalwork and some furniture, though it is not possible to see much of the detail, since I was trying to show the overall layout, not the individual works. Many of the paintings can be seen on the Barnes Foundation website.

I have had the opportunity to go to many of the world's great art museums and can easily say that there is nothing quite like the Barnes Foundation.

Uncle Dominique and Still Life With Apples