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Trace the table edge on either side of the cloth. Does it line up? Then compare the bottle’s tilt with the precarious stack of biscuits.
Cézanne makes a familiar still life difficult to settle into a single, consistent view. The table’s misaligned edges, tipping basket, and piled fruit pull in different directions, while the white cloth holds the arrangement together. Thickly modeled objects sit beside more lightly sketched passages at the margins.
Oil on canvas · 65 × 80 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Post-Impressionism
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Details and source
- Museum title
- The Basket of Apples
- Artist
- Paul Cézanne
- Date
- c. 1893
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 65 × 80 cm (25 7/16 × 31 1/2 in.); Framed: 88 × 104.2 × 9.6 cm (34 5/8 × 41 × 3 3/4 in.)
- Credit line
- Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.