Still Life Apples and Pears

Paul Cezanne

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Work Overview

Still Life with Apples and Pears
Artist: Paul Cézanne
Date:ca. 1891–92
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 17 5/8 x 23 1/8 in. (44.8 x 58.7 cm)


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.