Acrylic on canvas

Signature on the back

50 x 70 x 2 cm.

18 x 24 x 0.78 inch.

Unique

 

The Famous French Collection

Paul Cézanne was misunderstood and mocked for most of his career. Until the late 1890s, almost nobody bought his paintings - except a handful of fellow artists, and the dealer Ambroise Vollard, who saw something the critics didn't.

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Today he's credited with building the bridge between Impressionism and Cubism. The entire 20th century walks across it.

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He painted nearly seventy still lifes of apples. The story goes that as a boy, he defended Émile Zola in a schoolyard fight. The next day, Zola thanked him with a basket of apples.
He spent the rest of his life painting the thank-you note.