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The first major exhibition ever devoted to the still-life work of the great 19th century Impressionist painters has opened at Washington's Phillips Collection.
Impressionists are often thought of in terms of their landscapes and portraiture, but they produced a large body of work in still lifes, as this large-scale, 80-painting show attests.
The exhibition does not have Paul Cezanne's famous handless clock painting, which Edgar Degas so admired, but there are 16 of Cezanne's canvasses, including "The Kitchen Table" and "The Three Skulls." Other artists represented in the show are Frederic Bazille, Gustave Caillebotte, Gustave Corbet, Degas (one painting, "The Millinery Shop"), Henri Fantin-Latour, Paul Gauguin, Eva Gonzales, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley and Vincent van Gogh. In sum, the greats.
"Impressionist Still Life" will be on view through Jan. 13 at the Phillips, 1600 21st St., N.W. Telephone is 202-387-2151. Web site is ...