Jinishing Touches 0n the side of the octagonal pitcher, toward the left, and the patch just to pitcher, where the handle begins the right of the blue pot; and in a paler, more its arc off the vessel's body, there lies a stroke washed and transparent version of the color, of green that strays onto the inner part in the patch of green left of the base of of the handle (opposite). It is likely that that the pitcher and on the side of the white pot. one long, tapering patch of emerald green That strip of green on the pitcher's was among those marks that came last, that handle complements the reds of the tapestry were added as finishing touches in order to and the apples that lie around the pitcher— satisfy Cezanne, somehow, that he was done, like the bit of washed red that has escaped that he could stop, that he should add no the leftmost apple to curve onto the pitcher's more. It is nothing like the top and final layer base as a piece of colored shadow. It punctu- of a traditional picture, either as it was taught ates the preponderance of blues everywhere at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts or as it was prac- in the still life, congregating around the ticed by other "new"painters, such as Monet pitcher, loaded thickly and opaquely into the or Degas. There a glaze, a bit of local color, long ellipse of interstitial space opened up by or a unifying layer of oil or pastel would the pitcher's handle, particularly in the lower complete, cover, or even out what had begun curve, which it appears to fill up like liquid, as an idea first sketched in pencil or painted or like a bit of blue flame whose tapering in roughly to establish the composition's shape resembles that of the green patch. It main lines. Here, instead, it is a long scrap marks the white of the pitcher in a manner of color that picks up the bits of green found that clearly has nothing to do with the briefly elsewhere, under and over other colors— indicated faint blue design upon its surface. in the tapestry, particularly the patch that It lies atop several veils of blue and rose, encroaches upon the pointed lip of the a bit of opacity on top of their transparency 137