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apples
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
His painting provoked incomprehension and ridicule in contemporary art criticism. Until the late 1890s it was mainly fellow artists and the art dealer and gallery owner Ambroise Vollard who discovered his work and were among the first to buy his paintings.
He is now said to have formed the bridge between late 19th-century Impressionism and the early 20th century's new line of artistic enquiry, Cubism.
Did you know?
Cézanne painted some 70 still lifes depicting apples. Legend has it that, as a child, Paul Cézanne vigorously defended Emile Zola in the schoolyard. The next day, his friend thanked him with a gift of a basket of apples.
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