oil, cardboard, 29×22 cm

The painting from 1931 belongs to the period when Vladimír Kristin was influenced by the aesthetics of Paul Cézanne and frequently painted still lifes. Like the French painter, Kristin employed a reductive geometric stylization of the fruit. Specifically, in the depiction of two pears and an apple, one can notice the application of a Cubist-like construction of color-graded crystalline segments, which define the volume of the fruit and the transitions between light and shadow.

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