1893 (ca.), Paul Cezanne, Still Life with Water Jug -- Tate Modern (London)
From the exhibition label: This is an unfinished painting, scored with a knife by Cezanne, left crumpled in the studio and later partially restored after his death. Sketching his initial ideas in thinned painted lines and washes rather than pencil, he then reworked them with intense blue lines. He wiped paint away when he changed his mind about an object’s position, to retain the luminosity of the off-white background. Cezanne was aware that all these preparatory stages might play a useful visual role on the finished surfaces of his paintings. We can see this in the more developed compositions displayed in the next room.
1893 (ca.), Paul Cezanne, Still Life with Water Jug -- Tate Modern (London)
From the exhibition label: This is an unfinished painting, scored with a knife by Cezanne, left crumpled in the studio and later partially restored after his death. Sketching his initial ideas in thinned painted lines and washes rather than pencil, he then reworked them with intense blue lines. He wiped paint away when he changed his mind about an object’s position, to retain the luminosity of the off-white background. Cezanne was aware that all these preparatory stages might play a useful visual role on the finished surfaces of his paintings. We can see this in the more developed compositions displayed in the next room.