# Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses, in Post-Impressionism

Paul Cézanne painted this in about 1890, aged about 46. It is now at The Met in New York.

Our note:

> Apples are arranged on a table beside a potted primrose, its dark green leaves spreading against the soft background. Cézanne painted apples throughout his career, valuing them as patient models whose round forms let him explore colour and volume.

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## The work

- Date: ca. 1890
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 28 3/4 x 36 3/8 in. (73 x 92.4 cm)
- Type: Paintings
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 51.112.1
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Paul Cézanne](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/paul-cezanne), French, 1839–1906

Cézanne divided his life between Paris and his native Aix-en-Provence. Encouraged by his schoolfriend Émile Zola and later by Pissarro, with whom he painted at Pontoise and Auvers in the 1870s, he showed at the first and third Impressionist exhibitions.

13 works in the collection.

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