# The Vase of Tulips, in Post-Impressionism

Paul Cézanne painted this in about 1890, aged about 46. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

From the museum's label:

> Typical of Cezanne’s work, this painting is carefully considered and the composition hard-won: the traces of at least three other pieces of fruit at lower left attest to Cezanne's struggles to make the arrangement work.

_Text from the Art Institute of Chicago._

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## The work

- Date: c. 1890
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 59.6 × 42.3 cm (23 1/2 × 16 5/8 in.); Framed: 84.5 × 67 × 10.2 cm (33 1/4 × 26 3/8 × 4 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933.423
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Paul Cézanne](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/paul-cezanne), French, 1839–1906

Cézanne divided his life between Paris and his native Aix-en-Provence. Encouraged by his schoolfriend Émile Zola and later by Pissarro, with whom he painted at Pontoise and Auvers in the 1870s, he showed at the first and third Impressionist exhibitions.

13 works in the collection.

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