Still Life with Apples and Pears by Paul Cézanne was created in 1891 – 1892. The painting is in Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The size of the work is 44,8 x 58,7 cm and is made as an oil on canvas.
Cézanne once proclaimed, “With an apple I want to astonish Paris,” and he succeeded, even in his most deceptively simple still lifes, to dazzle and delight. Turning to the Provençal apples and Beurré Diel pears grown in the vicinity of the family’s estate near Aix, he dispensed with traditional one-point perspective and examined the fruit, plates, and table from various viewpoints—straight on, above, and sideways. (read more in Metropolitan Museum of Art)
About the Artist: French artist and Post-Impressionist painter Paul Cézanne was born in Aix-en-Provence. In Paris, Cézanne met the Impressionist Camille Pissarro. Initially, the friendship formed in the mid-1860s between Pissarro and Cézanne was that of master and disciple, in which Pissarro exerted a formative influence on the younger artist. Cézanne’s early work is often concerned with the figure in the landscape. Cézanne’s paintings were shown in the first exhibition of the Salon des Refusés in 1863… Read more
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