Still Life with Fruit Basket
1888 Musée d'Orsay
About this artwork
This oil on canvas depicts an arrangement of fruit and ceramic dishware on a tabletop, characterized by the artist's signature structural brushwork. It is currently part of the collection at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.
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Cézanne often spent months on a single still life, meticulously arranging the objects to capture their 'essence' rather than a fleeting moment. His innovative approach to spatial depth, where objects seem to be viewed from multiple angles simultaneously, was a major catalyst for the development of Cubism by Picasso and Braque.
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Still Life with Fruit Basket
Paul Cezanne, 1888
