While previous owners displayed the painting with only the still life and portrait showing, the Currier Museum of Art is showing ... Pechstein’s wife, a bowl of fruit, a Delft tile and a snake ...

The job of art was to "render visible ... was somewhere in the middle and poor old still life was right down at the bottom of the pile. Bowl of fruit anyone? Still life has always carried that ...

This substantial exhibition demonstrates the radicalism of the man who promised to set Paris alight with an apple and who did indeed turn the contents of his fruit ... still life with a sugar bowl ...