Houses at L'Estaque

Hidden among the geometric planes of Picasso’s summer 1910 painting, Still Life with Glass and Lemon (fig. 12), the attentive viewer will discover a wineglass, a pedestal fruit bowl, and a lemon, resting on a table (fig. 13). The composition recalls numerous still lifes by Cézanne, with their characteristic...

~OF THE many complementary and even contradictory currents that are bracketed loosely under the heading of “Neoclassic” architecture, the most vital seem motivated by that late eighteenth century spirit of drastic reform which found its most radical culmination in the political revolutions of America and France. In an effort to establish a...