oil on panel · 1908 · a. weisman
three lemons and a knife. one lemon half-peeled. weisman painted lemons almost every winter of her working life — for the colour, she said, when everything outside the studio had gone grey. the kitchen below this room still smells, in late january, of something like them.
the knife is borrowed; she did not own one of that shape. the painter who lent it to her was killed in an accident three months after the sittings ended. the knife was never returned. it appears, identified by the small nick near the handle, in two later works.
field-note the peel curls toward the viewer. weisman did this on purpose; one of her teachers had told her the eye must be invited. the eye accepts.