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The Basket of Apples
Cézanne’s tilted world — and the wine bottle standing dead upright through it all.
What
Cézanne’s famous unstable table: the basket spilling apples, the cloth in stiff folds, the plate of biscuits sliding — and one dark wine bottle standing perfectly upright in the middle of it.
Why
The picture that broke the horizon line and started modern painting; the bottle is the one thing Cézanne let stay vertical. A faithful reproduction of a public-domain painting at The Art Institute of Chicago.
Notice
Every plane tilts a different way, yet the bottle holds true — the calm at the centre of the experiment.
“Even where the world stops behaving, the cellar keeps its bearing.”
Format
The full-resolution, colour-managed file — yours to print and keep. Editions ship with their certificate.
Sized to protect print quality — this source supports sizes up to 11x17" cleanly.
Size
$39.00
Honesty
ReproductionA faithful reproduction of a public-domain work. Source: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1926.252.
- Kind
- reproduction
- Artist
- Paul Cézanne
- Era
- France, c. 1893
- Source
- The Art Institute of Chicago
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (source published 1930 or earlier). Cleared by open-access-registrar on 2026-07-18. The Art Institute of Chicago — public-domain / open-access. isPublicDomain:true; accession 1926.252; direct-fetch confirmed 2026-07-18.
