Look first
Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses
Paul Cézanne · ca. 1890
Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses by Paul Cézanne: Bequest of Sam A. Lewisohn, 1951
What to notice
Compare the round apples with the flowering primroses and tilted tabletop; Cézanne holds different shapes and viewpoints in a single, carefully pressured arrangement.
Discover
Cézanne painted Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses around 1890. Fruit, flowers, cloth, and tilted tabletop bring contrasting shapes and viewpoints into one pressured arrangement, making sustained looking more important than seamless illusion.
Source institution: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Rights status: Public Domain / The Met Open Access
Rights status: Public Domain / The Met Open Access
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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