Plate 20 Paul Cezanne ezanne's earliest known watercolor still couldn't be more different from his late work in St/7/ Life: Flowers and Fruit C; life, this singular flower piece once watercolor in the genre of still life. It is a kind of on a Table, c. 1865-70 belonged to the artist's patron Victor Chocquet marker: of a concept of process as direct, unme- Watercolor and gouache on cardboard, 15.9 x It is heavily touched with gouache and scribbled diated gesture in a fluid material medium and 1 with the same expressionist dabs and flourishes of Cezanne's strategy of caricaturing his forebears 12.7 cm (6 /4 x 5 in.) California, private collection found in the rightmost pear of St/7/ Life: Sugar and adopting an exaggeratedly expressionist Bowl, Pears, and Blue Cup (fig. 5). With its dark facture to signal a kind of late-coming hyper- background and liberal application of opaque Romanticism. He considered it important enough whites, it has the look of a miniature version of to include in the third Impressionist exhibition, Cezanne's roiling oils of the same period, and it in 1877. 124 CEZANNE IN THE STUDIO