Plate 14 Paul Cézanne pples, Bottle, and Class (1895-98) is an windowed background. Cézanne then started to Apples, Bottle, and Class, A 1895-98 example, from early in the last decade of model and fill in some of the apples—along with Pencil and watercolor Cezanne's life, of the beginning lineaments of a the left edge of the bottle, and the interstice 31 x 48 cm tableau in pencil and watercolor that was never between the bottle and the goblet—with water- 1 7 completed or even fully conceived. In it, the color. But that is as far as he went; in varying (l2 /4 X l8 /8¡n.) Paris, Musée d'Orsay painter has sketched a ledge surface replete with degrees, the apples are left open to the white of horizontal edge and a hint of drawer or other ver- the paper they barely inhabit, while the glass and tical seam, ten apples (and perhaps the beginning bottle disappear into the thin air above them. of an eleventh, to the left), the beginnings of a Here Cezanne's working process, still more or less glass and a wine bottle to the right, the slight linear in its order of pencil conception and water- suggestion of a pot lid or other such item at the color realization, displays itself with a lovely left, and the first indications of a curtained or economy of means. 83 PICTURE AND SKETCH