Sandra Frazier Gallery

One rainy day, Louis Le Bail watched Cezanne compose a still life: a napkin, a glass containing a little red wine, and peaches. "The cloth was very slightly draped upon the table, with innate taste," he later remembered. "Then Cezanne arranged the fruits, contrasting the tones one against the other, making the complementaries vibrate, the greens against the reds, the yellows against the blues, tipping, turning, balancing the fruits... one guessed that it was a feast for the eye to him." When he had finished, Cezanne explained to his young colleague: "The main thing is the modeling; one shouldn't even say modeling, but modulating."

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