![Pablo Picasso - Still Life with Pitcher and Apples [1919]](http://farm1.staticflickr.com/371/20329477552_588510c4ea_o.jpg)
This still-life was discovered only after the painter's death. The composition is extremely simple, four apples, a pitcher, a plate, without any decor or personalised objects. It alludes to no season and to no particular place, and this gives it a universal character. The arrangement of the objects makes no practical sense: two apples on the sideboard on either side of a pitcher, on top of which is a plate with two more apples. Nevertheless, there is something disquieting here. Against the neutral background, the pitcher may also be seen as a female figure with generous forms: with her voluptuously open mouth and the generous swelling of the highlighted belly, this pitcher-woman is as erotic and colossal as the giantesses painted during the same period.
[Musée National Picasso, Paris - Oil on canvas, 25 9/16 x 16 15/16 inches]