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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">As Diane Gillespie notes there are 7 apples in Cezanne's "Still Life with Apples" (labelled this way in the Fitzwilliam Museum) and referred to by Woolf as "Six Apples." It's interesting to read the response of Vanessa and Virginia to the
purchase of this painting by Keynes who later donated it to the Fitzwilliam. The purchase reverberated through the house
of artists:<span> </span>Vanessa Bell raved: “the
Cezanne is really amazing and it’s more exciting to have it in the house. Its
so extraordinarily solid and alive” (Shone 175). Virginia Woolf ruminated, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1in;line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">what can the 6 apples not be? I began to
wonder. There’s their relationship to each other, their color, their solidity.
To Roger and Nessa, moreover, it was a far more intricate question than this. It
was a question of pure paint or mixed; if pure which colour: emerald or
viridian; and then the laying on of the paint; and the time he’d spent, and how
he’d altered it, and why, and when he’d painted it—We carried it into the next
room, and Lord! How it showed up the pictures there, as if you put a real stone
among sham ones. (<i>Diary</i> April 13,
1918) <br></span></p>Pat Laurence<br></div>City University of New York<br><div><div><div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Lorena Russell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lrussell@unca.edu" target="_blank">lrussell@unca.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal">Dear Woolfians,</p><p class="MsoNormal">I’m preparing a brief undergraduate lecture on modernism, and am trying to track down a Cezanne painting that Woolf mentions in her April 1918 diary entry. In that entry (I believe Vol. I p. 40—I don’t have the source here), she recalls an afternoon with Roger Frye and talks about a Cezanne still life. From what I can tell, this would be the “Still Life with Apples,” at the Fitzwilliam although the footnote references one called simple “Apples.” The Fitzwilliam painting has 8 apples and Woolf references 6 in her journal. I realize this may just be an inaccuracy in her account, and I know it’s a minor detail, but I wondered if anyone on this list might know what Cezanne painting she is referencing in that diary reference.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Many thanks,</p><p class="MsoNormal">Lorena</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">=======================================</p><p class="MsoNormal">Lorena Russell, Ph.D.</p>
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