The Spring House (La Conduite d'eau)

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FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG

This painting used to be in the famous collection of Gertrude and Leo Stein, the expatriate siblings who were at the center of the Parisian avant-garde in the early 20th century. Cézanne depicts a springhouse—a small building constructed over a natural water source and used either for refrigeration or as a pumping station. Paint is applied in short, parallel strokes, and in some places the color is so thin that the canvas shows through.

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