Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses

Artist
Paul Cézanne
Year
ca. 1890
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
28 3/4 x 36 3/8 in. (73 x 92.4 cm)

A still life in which apples rest on a rumpled cloth beside a pot of primroses, painted with Cézanne’s deliberate, structured brushwork. The composition balances the roundness of the fruit against the crisp geometry of table and wall — one of the late still lifes that pointed toward Cubism.