Oh loveliness! Oh marvel of marvels! But I won't eat peaches with their "fuzz" on! Ernest used to do it when he was a kid simply to make his brother shudder. And he does it now to make ME shudder. But the painting is truly spectacular, fuzz and all!
!...If I hide the thin strip of burnt sienna under the left-hand peach,I get the impression that the peach's body litterally comes out of the virtual plane of the painted surface,as a painting relief,an architectural frieze-like,resulting in a subtle distortion of the sightedness,better observed if we could make two sagittal cuts of the painting(sacrilegious!)so the result would be:
-Left-hand peach; "a mountain"
-Right peach: "a hill"
-Pot: "a thin wall"
Conclusion: a fantastic pictorial elaboration of the space between the pot in the background and the invisible vertical plane next to us!And even the dark background, from the right side,is beginning to wrap the right-hand peach,therefore being involved in the famous space too!
Masterly!
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