Apples and Biscuits

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Apples and Biscuits: Paul Cezanne

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Work Overview: Apples and Biscuits
Paul Cezanne
Date: 1895
Style: Post-Impressionism
Period: Final period
Genre: still life
46 x 55 cm
Location: Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, France

This painting is one of Paul Cézanne’s most stunning masterpieces and one of the symbols of his great mastery of still life painting. Domenica Walter paid a vast sum for it in 1952. This sensational purchase attracted public attention both to her and to her magnificent collection.
Here Cézanne created a very balanced composition with just a plate and a few apples arranged on a chest. His experiments into stylising forms and expressing volume through colour are fully developed in this painting. In fact Cézanne painted many still lifes at a time when this was considered a minor genre and was rather neglected. He wanted to restore its prestige and "to conquer Paris with an apple". For Cézanne, the pure form of this fruit was a poetic symbol. It also alludes to his great friendship with Emile Zola (1840-1902), the future writer and journalist, and an old school friend, who once gave Cézanne some apples as thanks for a favour.

Provenance: Alphonse Kahn, Saint-Germain-en-Laye; Marczell de Nèmes, Budapest; sale of the Nèmes Collection, Paris, 18 June 1913, no. 87 (repr. cat.); Biermann; Baron M. de Herzog, Budapest; Paul Rosenberg, Paris; Durand-Ruel, Paris-New York; G. Cognacq, Paris; Cognacq sale, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 14 May 1952, no. 28 (cat. pl. XXVI), awarded to Domenica Walter.

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