{"data":{"id":111436,"api_model":"artworks","api_link":"https:\/\/api.artic.edu\/api\/v1\/artworks\/111436","is_boosted":true,"title":"The Basket of Apples","alt_titles":null,"thumbnail":{"lqip":"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhBgAFAPQAAGdYO1hSRFVUSWFYRGtdRGFcSl9jW2xgS25iTnNlR3FlS2loXGxqY3V0Z3R0anl5aHN6cINuTIJzUHWAc3uGfYeFeYWOfYSOhIuLgIyMhJWVh52ci5majZ6ekQAAAAAAACH5BAAAAAAALAAAAAAGAAUAAAUYIONA1GUJQGA800AsB1IoVYZpSdRw3SaFADs=","width":12640,"height":10094,"alt_text":"Painting of a basket of green and red-yellow apples spilling over into a white cloth placed on a wooden table, with a dark green bottle and a plate of pale biscuits behind."},"main_reference_number":"1926.252","has_not_been_viewed_much":false,"boost_rank":null,"date_start":1887,"date_end":1900,"date_display":"c. 1893","date_qualifier_title":"","date_qualifier_id":null,"artist_display":"Paul Cezanne (French, 1839\u20131906)","place_of_origin":"France","description":"<p>In many ways Paul Cezanne was the odd man out among the artists branded as \u201cImpressionists\u201d\u2014those who showed their works outside of France\u2019s state-sponsored Salon exhibitions. Early on, he painted landscapes, the typical Impressionist subject, but his arresting and complex still lifes changed the traditional <em>nature morte<\/em> (dead nature) genre and continue to puzzle and tantalize today.<\/p>\n<p>At first glance, <em>The Basket of Apples<\/em>, the first of Cezanne\u2019s works to enter the museum\u2019s collection, appears to be a fruit-laden table setting anchored by a wine bottle. Closer looking reveals shifts in reality conveyed by the misaligned tabletop, tilted bottle, cascading apples, and the precarious tower of cookies known as <em>langues de chat<\/em> (cat tongues), which magically stop just short of falling out of the picture. Furthering the sense of what has been called the artist\u2019s \u201ccontrolled chaos\u201d are the shifts in brushwork from the thick strokes used to model fruits within the cloth\u2019s thick sculptural forms to the sketch-like marks used around the edges of both the table and the cloth. Cezanne rarely signed his paintings, so his signature at the bottom left suggests the importance he ascribed to this painting or to its original owner.<\/p>\n","short_description":null,"dimensions":"65 \u00d7 80 cm (25 7\/16 \u00d7 31 1\/2 in.); Framed: 88 \u00d7 104.2 \u00d7 9.6 cm (34 5\/8 \u00d7 41 \u00d7 3 3\/4 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":null,"width":80,"height":65,"diameter":null,"clarification":null},{"depth":9,"width":104,"height":88,"diameter":null,"clarification":"Framed"}],"medium_display":"Oil on canvas","inscriptions":"Inscribed at lower left:  P. C\u00e9zanne","credit_line":"Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection","catalogue_display":"<p>Rewald 800<\/p><p>Feilchenfeldt, Warman and Nash FWN 860<\/p><p>Venturi 600<\/p>","publication_history":"Emile Bernard, \u201cErinnerungen an Paul Cezanne,\u201d Kunst und K\u00fcnstler 6 (1908), p. 521 (ill.).\n\nJulius Meier-Greafe, Paul C\u00e9zanne (Munich, 1910), p. 79 (ill.).\n\nC. L. Hind, The Post-Impressionists (London, 1911), p. 74.\n\nFrederick Lawton, \u201cPaul C\u00e9zanne,\u201d Art Journal (1911), p. 57 (ill.).\n\nWerner Weisbach, Impressionismus: Ein Problem der Malerei in der Antike und Neuzeit vol. 2 (Berlin, 1911), p. 162.\n\nArs\u00e8ne Alexandre, \u201cExposition d\u2019art moderne,\u201d Les Arts (August 1912), p. 7, no. 6. \n\n\u201cA Private Collection in Germany That Contains Fourteen Examples of the Art of Paul Cezanne, a Great Modern, Who Already Is Placed with the Old Masters,\u201d New York Times (July 6, 1913), p. 15 (ill.).\n\nCharles Borgmeyer, The Master Impressionists (Chicago, 1913), p. 230 (ill.).\n\nJulius Meier-Graefe, Paul C\u00e9zanne (Munich, 1913), p. 76.\n\nAmbroise Vollard, C\u00e9zanne (Paris, 1914), p. 102, pl. 33.\n\nStuart, \u201cC\u00e9zanne and His Place in Impressionism,\u201d The Fine Arts Journal 35, 5 (May 1917), p. 335 (ill.).\n\nC. Coquiot, Paul C\u00e9zanne (1919), p. 246.\n\nJulius Meier-Graefe, Cezanne und sein Kreis (Munich, 1922), p. 185 (ill.).\n\nL\u2019Amour de l\u2019Art 5, 2 (February 1924), p. 41 (ill.).\n\nModern Paintings in the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial from the Birch-Bartlett Collection (Chicago: Art Institute, 1926), 2, pl. 3.\n\nR. Tatlock, \u201cThe Courtlaud Trust,\u201d The Art News 24 (June 12, 1926), p. 28, ill.\n\n\u201cCezanne, Rousseau, Picasso,\u201d The Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin 20 (1926), pp. 61-64 (ill.).\n\nThe Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report (1926), p. 16, ill.\n\nForbes Watson, \u201cA Note on the Birch-Bartlett Collection,\u201d The Arts 9 (1926), p. 304 (ill.).\n\nMorton Dauwen Zabel, \u201cAn American Gallery of Modern Painting,\u201d Art and Archeology 26, 6 (December 1928), pp. 227 (ill.). 232.\n\nThe Art Institute of Chicago, Modern Paintings in the Helen Birch-Bartlett Memorial Collection (Chicago, 1929), pp. 8-9 (ill.).\n\nA. Bertram, The World\u2019s Masters\u2013Cezanne (London, 1929), pl. 22.\n\nAlbert Franz Cochrane, \u201cFogg Museum Stages Magnificent Exhibition of French Art,\u201d Boston Evening (March 9, 1929).\n\nClarence Bulliet, Apples and Madonnas (New York, 1930), p. 56.\n\nLionello Venturi, C\u00e9zanne: son art \u2013 son oeuvre vol. 1 (Paris, 1936), no. 600.\n\nE. A. Jewell, Paul C\u00e9zanne (1944), p. 21 (ill.).\n\nThe Art Institute of Chicago, A Brief Guide to the Collections (The Art Institute of Chicago, 1956), p. 36.\n\nThe Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), pp. 72-3. \n\nFrederick A. Sweet, \u201cGreat Chicago Collectors,\u201d Apollo 84 (September 1966), p. 194, fig. 14.\n\nJohn Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (New York, 1970), p. 99 (ill.).\n\nRen\u00e9 Huyghe, La Rel\u00e8ve du reel: impressionnisme, symbolisme (Paris, 1974), no. 191.\n\nDiane Kelder, The Great Book of French Impressionism (New York, 1980), pp. 408-9 (ill.).\n\nPaul C\u00e9zanne, exh. cat. (Madrid, Museo Epa\u00f1ol de Arte Conempor\u00e1neo, 1984), p. 235 (ill.).\n\nRichard R. Brettell, \u201cThe Bartletts and the Grande Jatte: Collecting Modern Paintings in the 1920s,\u201d The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 12, 2 (1986), p. 105, no. 1 (ill.).\n\nJames Wood, Master Paintings in The Art Institute (Chicago, 1988), p. 69 (ill.).\n\nRichard Verdi, C\u00e9zanne (London, 1992), p. 143, fig. 123.\n\nJohn Rewald, The Paintings of Paul C\u00e9zanne: A Catalogue Raisonn\u00e9 (New York, 1996), vol. 1, p. 480, no. 800, vol. 2, p. 276 (ill.).\n\nThe Age of Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven and London, 2008), cat. 67, pp. 141-42 (ill.).\n\nAchim Borchardt-Hume, Gloria Groom, Caitlin Haskell and Natalia Sidlina, eds., Cezanne, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2022), 38,  50-51, 128 cat. 56, 129.\n\nJames Rondeau, ed., Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago: Highlights of the collection (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2025), 91 (ill.).\n\nJames Rondeau, ed., Highlights of the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2026), 142, 261\u201362, no. 105, (ill.).","exhibition_history":"Paris, Galerie Vollard, C\u00e9zanne, Nov\u2013Dec. 1895, no cat.\n\nBerlin, Paul Cassirer, Sonderausstellung Paul C\u00e9zanne, Apr. 22\u2013June 15, 1904, no cat. , as Korb mit \u00c4pfeln.\n\nBerlin, Paul Cassirer, XI. Jahrgang, Winter 1908\/1909, II. Ausstellung, Oct. 15\u2013Nov. 10, 1908, cat. 17, as Apfel, Flasche und Kuchen. \n\nParis, Manzi, Joyant & Cie, Exposition d\u2019art moderne, June 6\u2013July 6, 1912, cat. 3, as Pommes.\n\nParis, Paul Rosenberg, Art fran\u00e7ais du XIXe si\u00e8cle au profit de l\u2019Association G\u00e9n\u00e9rale des mutil\u00e9s de la guerre, June 25\u2013July 13, 1917, cat. 5, as Corbeille de pommes.\n\nParis, Galerie Paul Rosenberg, L\u2019art fran\u00e7ais au XIXe si\u00e8cle, 1919, no cat.\n\nParis, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, C\u00e9zanne, Dec. 1\u201318, 1920, cat. 28, as Les Pommes.\n\nParis, Paul Rosenberg, Exposition d\u2019oeuvres de grands ma\u00eetres du si\u00e8cle dix-neuvi\u00e8me si\u00e8cle, May 3\u2013June 3, 1922, cat. 9, as Le panier de pommes, 1885.\n\nParis, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Exposition Paul C\u00e9zanne (au profit de la caisse du monument C\u00e9zanne), Mar. 3\u201324, 1924, no cat.\n\nMinneapolis Institute of Art, Modern French Paintings from the Birch-Bartlett Collection, Apr. 1925, no cat..\n\nCambridge, MA, Fogg Art Museum, French Painting of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Mar. 6\u2013Apr. 6, 1929, cat. 6 (ill.), as La Corbeille de pommes.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June1\u2013Nov. 1, 1933, cat. 305.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1\u2013Nov. 1, 1934, cat. 290.\n\nPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, C\u00e9zanne, Nov. 10\u2013Oct. 10, 1934, cat. 17, as c. 1885.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Modern Paintings in the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial from the Birch Bartlett Collection, 1946, no cat. no. (ill.).\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, C\u00e9zanne: Paintings, Watercolors, and Drawings; A Loan Exhibition, Feb. 7\u2013Mar. 16, 1952, cat. 54 (ill.), as Still Life: The Basket of Apples, 1890\u201394; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Apr. 4\u2013May 18, 1952.\n\nWashington, DC, The Phillips Collection, C\u00e9zanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phillips Collection, Feb. 27\u2013Mar. 28, 1971, cat. 25 (ill.), as c. 1895;Art Institute of Chicago, Apr. 17\u2013May 16, 1971; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1\u2013July 3, 1971 [Chicago only].\n\nNew York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, C\u00e9zanne to Picasso Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde, Sept. 13, 2006\u2013Jan. 7, 2007, cat. 44 (ill.); Art Institute of Chicago, February 17-May 13, 2007; Paris, Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay, as De C\u00e9zanne \u00e0 Picasso: Chefs-d'Oeuvre de la galerie Vollard, June 18\u2013Sept. 16, 2007, cat. 32. \n\nFort Worth, TX, Kimbell Museum of Art, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29\u2013Nov.mber 2, 2008, cat. 67.\n\nBudapest, Sz\u00e9pm\u0171v\u00e9szeti M\u00fazeum, C\u00e9zanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, Oct. 25, 2012\u2013Feb. 17, 2013, cat. 103.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Cezanne, May 15\u2013Sep. 5, 2022, cat. 56; London, Tate, Oct. 5, 2022\u2013Mar. 12, 2023.","provenance_text":"Ambroise Vollard (1866\u20131939), Paris by Nov. 1895 [this and the following information according to New York 2006-7]; Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris [Bernheim-Jeune archive; 5538?]. Paul Cassirer, Berlin, June 1, 1904 [Paul Cassirer archive 5775 (5538)]; Max Linde, L\u00fcbeck, Germany, June 1, 1904. Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, by July 1907; sent to Paul Cassirer, Berlin, July 1907; returned to Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Nov. 1908. Jos Hessel (1859\u20131942), Paris, by 1913 until at least 1920 [based on inscription on reverse; see also New York Times 1913, Borgmeyer 1913, Paris 1920]. Paul Rosenberg, Paris, by 1922 [see Paris 1922]; sold through Joseph Stransky of French Galleries, New York to Frederick Clay Bartlett (1873\u20131593), Chicago , by 1925; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1926.","edition":null,"publishing_verification_level":"Web Cataloged","internal_department_id":14,"fiscal_year":1926,"fiscal_year_deaccession":null,"is_public_domain":true,"is_zoomable":true,"max_zoom_window_size":-1,"copyright_notice":null,"has_multimedia_resources":true,"has_educational_resources":false,"has_advanced_imaging":false,"colorfulness":0,"color":{"h":94,"l":55,"s":4,"percentage":0.0016020295300128164,"population":2044},"latitude":41.878802343119,"longitude":-87.622133140573,"latlon":"41.878802343119,-87.622133140573","is_on_view":true,"on_loan_display":null,"gallery_title":"Gallery 248","gallery_id":2147479698,"nomisma_id":null,"artwork_type_title":"Painting","artwork_type_id":1,"department_title":"Painting and Sculpture of Europe","department_id":"PC-10","artist_id":40482,"artist_title":"Paul Cezanne","alt_artist_ids":[],"artist_ids":[40482],"artist_titles":["Paul Cezanne"],"category_ids":["PC-10","PC-831"],"category_titles":["Painting and Sculpture of Europe","Essentials"],"term_titles":["oil on canvas","oil painting","Post-Impressionism","still life","oil paint (paint)","paint","oil paintings (visual works)","french","canvas","paint","painting","painting","painting techniques","19th century","apples","basket","bottles","Bread","table","tablecloth","painting (image making)","painting","european painting","food","Century of Progress","world's fairs","Chicago World's Fairs"],"style_id":"TM-7547","style_title":"Post-Impressionism","alt_style_ids":["TM-13203"],"style_ids":["TM-7547","TM-13203"],"style_titles":["Post-Impressionism","19th century"],"classification_id":"TM-66","classification_title":"oil on canvas","alt_classification_ids":["TM-10387","TM-78","TM-14976","TM-9","TM-54"],"classification_ids":["TM-66","TM-10387","TM-78","TM-14976","TM-9","TM-54"],"classification_titles":["oil on canvas","paint","oil paintings (visual works)","french","painting","european painting"],"subject_id":"TM-8937","alt_subject_ids":["TM-12885","TM-15693","TM-13463","TM-13358","TM-14175","TM-15423","TM-8673","TM-12169","TM-11299","TM-12176"],"subject_ids":["TM-8937","TM-12885","TM-15693","TM-13463","TM-13358","TM-14175","TM-15423","TM-8673","TM-12169","TM-11299","TM-12176"],"subject_titles":["still life","apples","basket","bottles","Bread","table","tablecloth","food","Century of Progress","world's fairs","Chicago World's Fairs"],"material_id":"TM-2451","alt_material_ids":["TM-3124","TM-2577","TM-13502"],"material_ids":["TM-2451","TM-3124","TM-2577","TM-13502"],"material_titles":["oil paint (paint)","canvas","paint","painting"],"technique_id":"TM-4273","alt_technique_ids":["TM-14210","TM-3971","TM-3891"],"technique_ids":["TM-4273","TM-14210","TM-3971","TM-3891"],"technique_titles":["oil painting","painting","painting techniques","painting (image making)"],"theme_titles":["Essentials"],"image_id":"52ac8996-3460-cf71-cb42-5c4d0aa29b74","alt_image_ids":[],"document_ids":["c13bc0fd-b0ac-4c22-7a17-6436e0a13dfe"],"sound_ids":["c13bc0fd-b0ac-4c22-7a17-6436e0a13dfe"],"video_ids":[],"text_ids":[],"section_ids":[],"section_titles":[],"site_ids":[],"suggest_autocomplete_boosted":"The Basket of Apples","suggest_autocomplete_all":[{"input":["1926.252"],"contexts":{"groupings":["accession"]}},{"input":["The Basket of Apples"],"weight":79181,"contexts":{"groupings":["title"]}}],"source_updated_at":"2026-04-23T10:02:47-05:00","updated_at":"2026-08-27T15:11:46-05:00","timestamp":"2026-08-28T06:36:17-05:00"},"info":{"license_text":"The `description` field in this response is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Generic License (CC-By) and the Terms and Conditions of artic.edu. 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