Plate 7 Paul Cezanne his baroque still life returns to the empty or dessert in the studio and even been offered a Still Life with Apples and Tchair back of earlier sketches and sets it seat at table rather more elegant than the stu- Chair Back, c. 1904-6 behind a richly colored table full of fruit, a bottle, dio's usual rustic chairs. And yet, poignantly, there Watercolor and graphite on white paper, 44.5 x and an empty glass, suggesting with uncharacter- is nobody there after all. As loosely rendered as 59 cm (i/Vz x 2314 in.) istic directness the scene of dining that is still it is, this is a richly complete watercolor tableau. London, Courtauld life's traditional fare but remarkably absent from Institute of Art Gallery, the rest of Cezanne's still-life oeuvre. The studio The Samuel Courtauld Trust, has suddenly become festive, like a pared-down D.1948.SC.H1 banquet left over from Cezanne's wild early years, when he painted orgiastic banquets. It is as if someone has finally been invited for dinner 3« CEZANNE IN THE STUDIO