The Basket of Apples; Cezanne (c. 1893)
The display reads:
Paul Cezanne
French, 1839 - 1906
"The Basket of Apples," (c. 1893)
Oil on canvas
Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection, 1926.252
In "The Basket of Apples," Paul Cezanne's use of pronounced countours and sketchy, broken ones elsewhere, along with such elements as the strange misalignment of the tabletop to the right and left, shows that he was trying to capture an experience and construct a composition outside the bounds of conventional modeling and perspective. For him, the painting of still lifes was a meditation on sense impressions, picture making, and the relation between the two. He probably signed this work before sending it to Paris for his first, revelatory one-man exhibition in November 1895, held in the gallery of Ambroise Vollard, who would become the artist's exclusive dealer.
Frame: Italian, late 17th or early 18th century; Baroque carved walnut and gilded frame.
Taken November 27th, 2010.
The Basket of Apples; Cezanne (c. 1893)
The display reads:
Paul Cezanne
French, 1839 - 1906
"The Basket of Apples," (c. 1893)
Oil on canvas
Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection, 1926.252
In "The Basket of Apples," Paul Cezanne's use of pronounced countours and sketchy, broken ones elsewhere, along with such elements as the strange misalignment of the tabletop to the right and left, shows that he was trying to capture an experience and construct a composition outside the bounds of conventional modeling and perspective. For him, the painting of still lifes was a meditation on sense impressions, picture making, and the relation between the two. He probably signed this work before sending it to Paris for his first, revelatory one-man exhibition in November 1895, held in the gallery of Ambroise Vollard, who would become the artist's exclusive dealer.
Frame: Italian, late 17th or early 18th century; Baroque carved walnut and gilded frame.
Taken November 27th, 2010.