The Basket of Apples is a still life oil painting by the French artist Paul Cezanne, created around 1893. The painting rejects naturalistic representation in favor of distorting objects to create multiple perspectives, an approach that later influenced Fauvism and Cubism, and it belongs to the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Facts
Year Createdcirca 1893, per Wikipedia LocationArt Institute of Chicago 1 Connections
Created By
Painted by Paul Cezanne, c. 1893.
In Form
Still life by Paul Cezanne, c. 1893.
In Movement
Cezanne is a defining Post-Impressionist painter.
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1. Wikipedia
Wikimedia FoundationThe Basket of Apples article, opening sentence
The Basket of Apples (French: Le panier de pommes) is a still-life oil painting by French artist Paul Cézanne, which he created c. 1893.
The Basket of Apples article, sentence on the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection
It belongs to the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Genre reference
The Basket of Apples is a still life oil painting by the French artist Paul Cezanne, created around 1893.
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