Porcelain Ornament - Paul Cézanne Still Life with Apples

$19.95 at The Getty Museum.

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Porcelain medallion ornament featuring Paul Cézanne's Still Life with Apples. During the last thirty years of his life, Paul Cézanne painted the same objects — the green vase, the rum bottle, the ginger pot, and the apples — over and over again. His interest was not in the objects themselves but in using them to experiment with shape, color, and lighting. He arranged his still lifes so that everything locked together. Edges of objects run into each other; for example, a black arabesque seemingly escapes from…