The Basket of Apples

The Basket of Apples

Paul Cezanne (French, 1839–1906)

c. 1893

On view — Gallery 248 at the Art Institute of Chicago.

In many ways Paul Cezanne was the odd man out among the artists branded as “Impressionists”—those who showed their works outside of France’s state-sponsored Salon exhibitions. Early on, he painted landscapes, the typical Impressionist subject, but his arresting and complex still lifes changed the…

Description courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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.)
Origin
France