Plate 6 Paul Cezanne kitchen pot sits unobtrusively next to this and the Louvre St/7/ Life with Apples, Pears, St/7/ Life with Cut Aa cleft, red-slashed watermelon and pro- and a Pot (fig. 15) suggest the much more open- Watermelon, c. 1900 jecting knife handle in this late watercolor. ended relation between pencil contouring and Watercolor and the pigmented liquidity of watercolor, as well as graphite on white paper, Here the watermelon is sexualized, becoming, as 31.5 x 47.5 cm Rainer Maria Rilke would describe the livid mouth the more indeterminate position of the study 5 3 (i2 / x i8 /4in.) 8 of a vaginal conch in a more famous still life between sketch and tableau, which characterizes Riehen/Basel, by Cezanne, a "smooth red orifice" whose "inward Cezanne's late works in watercolor. Fondation Beyeler 78.1 carmine bulg[es] out into brightness." Both 36 CEZANNE IN THE STUDIO