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| Still Life with Apples, 1899 |
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| Italian Woman |
Its always a pleasure to go up to the Getty. I am very familiar with the holdings now, after working there during my teaching days, and looking at them when visitors come. As always the Cezannes, which the Getty paid in the range of $25 million each, never fail to answer every question one could devise. And they they remain, each in lovely imbalance, the color glowing and rich.
Then the Norton Simon offers Paul Serusier's apples, a fine example of what I think of as incorporation - the Freudian defense mechanism of taking in what one admires, is affected by, wants...Serusier seems reductive to me - the colors echo, the perspective tilts, yet it's all so different and similar. 
