"The Plate of Apples" (c. 1887) - Paul Cezanne (1839-1906)
From the museum label: " This is one of several still lifes by Paul Cezanne showing the ochre wallpaper with blue lozenge shaped motifs that was in his apartment on the rue de Ouest in Paris. The work's early date is reinforced by the thickly applied paint, which is so different from the thin washes of pigments that the artist would use in the 1880's and 1890's. The surface of the work was sculpted almost as much as painted. Around the apples, for instance, Cezanne used a palette knife or the end of his brush to incise contours."
"The Plate of Apples" (c. 1887) - Paul Cezanne (1839-1906)
From the museum label: " This is one of several still lifes by Paul Cezanne showing the ochre wallpaper with blue lozenge shaped motifs that was in his apartment on the rue de Ouest in Paris. The work's early date is reinforced by the thickly applied paint, which is so different from the thin washes of pigments that the artist would use in the 1880's and 1890's. The surface of the work was sculpted almost as much as painted. Around the apples, for instance, Cezanne used a palette knife or the end of his brush to incise contours."