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Paul Cezanne, Still Life with Jug and drapery 1893-1894 years. Was
sold in May 1999 for $ 60,205 million,
Artist
Paul Czanne
Year
1895
Type
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Location
The Basket of Apples is a still life oil painting by French artist Paul Czanne. It belongs to the
Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.
The piece is often noted for its disjointed perspective. It has been described as a balanced
composition due to its unbalanced parts;[1] the tilted bottle, the incline of the basket, and the
foreshortened lines of the cookies mesh with the lines of the tablecloth. [1] Additionally, the right side
of the tabletop is not in the same plane as the left side, as if the image simultaneously reflects two
viewpoints.[2] Paintings such as this helped form a bridge between Impressionism and Cubism.[2]
This rich and dense still life, with a napkin shaped like Mont Sainte-Victoire, was painted about 187577
in the house of Czanne's father in Aix. The artist painted the decorative screen visible in the background
when a very young man.
Still Life with a Ginger Jar and Eggplants, 189394
Paul Czanne (French, 18391906)
Oil on canvas; 28 1/2 x 36 in. (72.4 x 91.4 cm)
Bequest of Stephen C. Clark, 1960 (61.101.4)
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For this commanding still life, with its richly orchestrated play of overlapping shapes, patterns, colors, and
textures, Czanne relied on a stock of familiar objects. The raffia-corded ginger jar, for example, is
featured in more than a dozen compositions, including three of comparable verve dating to the early
1890s.
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Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses, ca. 1890
Paul Czanne (French, 18391906)
Oil on canvas; 28 3/4 x 36 3/8 in. (73 x 92.4 cm)
Bequest of Sam A. Lewisohn, 1951 (51.112.1)
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Czanne rarely painted flowering plants or fresh-cut bouquets, which were susceptible to wilting;
purportedly, he preferred artificial flowers that could withstand his protracted painting sessions. All told, he
included potted plants in only three still lifes, two views of the conservatory at Jas de Bouffan, and about a
dozen exquisite watercolors made over the course of two decades (from about 1878 to 1906). Czanne
seems to have reserved this particular table, with its scalloped apron and distinctive bowed legs, for three
of his finest still lifes of the 1890s.
This view of Chinese primroses was once owned by the ardent gardener Claude Monet.
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