Cézanne: Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses
This great Cézanne is currently on view at The Met in New York.
Cézanne rarely painted flowers or freshly cut blooms and and potted plants appear only a handful of times in his work. The table here, with its graceful scalloped edge and curved legs, appears in three of his finest still lifes from the 1890s. Fittingly, this painting was once cherished by another great lover of gardens, Claude Monet.