Pyramid of Skulls 1901


Pyramid of Skulls is an oil painting done in 1901 by Paul Cezanne. Three skulls are facing forward and the other one in the back is laying down. The white skulls juxtapose the dark background. After doing research, this is a unique painting done by Cezanne because no other still life subject was ever painted so close to the viewer. Cezanne also never showed much interest in painting skulls until 1895. People say he was depressed so the paintings reflected that with the skulls. This was painted during the last decade of his life before he died of pneumonia.

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