Figure 40 Paul Cezanne Still Life with Blue Pot and Bottle of Wine, 1902-6 Watercolor and graphite on yellowish paper, 47.6 x 3 1 59.7 cm (i8 /4 x 23 /2 in.) New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library, 2002.61 the old movement from study to sketch to workup in a study medium to the begin- ning and ending of a finished tableau. Of the examples in the exhibition of watercolor still lifes that hover between the condition of the study and the status of the picture and come to occupy the new category of the tableau nonfini, perhaps Still Life with Fruit, Carafe, Sugar Bowl, and Bottle and Still Life with Green Melon (pis. 18,19) are the best ones to examine some- what more closely. They belong to a larger set of variations on a theme including ; Still Life with Cut Watermelon (pi. 6), which refers back through Manet and Fantin- Latour to the Spanish tradition of the bodegone, in which melons were prominently 10 featured. From one to the other, they show the principal motif of the watermelon cut and whole; in the front, the side, and the back of the composition; turned one way and the other so that the long, distended side and the shorter, more spherical side are turned toward the viewer; and in relation to different objects, which them- selves change from study to study, picture to picture. If I were forced to determine 95 PICTURE AND SKETCH