oil on board · 1911 · a. weisman
weisman returned to fruit once she had finished with the lemons. a single pear, a single plate, a single leaf. she painted it twice — once with the stem facing right, once with the stem facing left. only the left-facing version hangs here. the right-facing one is held by a private collector in another country.
the leaf is wrong for the pear. she knew this and kept it anyway, she said, because the painting needed something green. there is a story that she ate the pear during the second day of the sittings and used memory for the rest.
field-note the nick on the plate's edge matches the nick on the knife in the lemon painting. it is the same plate. it is also the same room, painted three years later.