It first belonged to influential Polish art critic Waldemar George
who presented the painting as a wedding gift to Louis Gautier-Chaumet,
editor-in-chief of "La Presse" newspaper, where George served as art
critic. The still life was executed at the height of Konchalovsky's creative
output, several years after he founded the Jack of Diamonds artists'
society, which pioneered the Russian avant-garde.
Konchalovsky and his peers were deeply influenced by the works
of Paul Cézanne, and their innovative form of Russian Cézannism finds
its most vivid expression in this distinctive work of art.
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