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Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses  1980

by Paul Cézanne

Cézanne rarely painted flowering plants or fresh-cut bouquets, which were susceptible to wilting under his protracted gaze. He included potted plants only in three still lifes, two views of the conservatory at Jas de Bouffan, his family's estate, and about a dozen exquisite watercolors made over the course of two decades (from about 1878 to 1906). Cézanne seems to have res...
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Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art