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The Basket of Apples

Landscapes and Still Lifes

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 Created
1893 1
circa 1893, per Wikipedia
Medium
Oil on canvas 1
Location
Art Institute of Chicago 1
Classification
Genre
Painting 1
Connections

Created By

Paul Cezanne, Artists

Painted by Paul Cezanne, c. 1893.

In Form

Painting, Art Forms

Still life by Paul Cezanne, c. 1893.

In Movement

Cezanne is a defining Post-Impressionist painter.

Sources
1. Wikipedia
Wikimedia Foundation
  • The 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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