Basket of Apples

The Still life oil painting Basket of Apples by French artist Paul Cézanne, created around 1893, exemplifies his innovative approach to Post-impressionism. The artwork features a canvas depicting a deceptively simple still life arrangement, but Cézanne rejects naturalistic accuracy by distorting objects to display multiple perspectives simultaneously. This technique challenged traditional representation and had a profound influence on later art movements such as Fauvism and Cubism. Currently, it belongs to the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago.