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The Art Institute of Chicago — public domain (CC0). Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection Source

7 Lot

Paul Cezanne

French, 1839–1906

The Basket of Apples

Date: c. 1893
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 65 × 80 cm (25 7/16 × 31 1/2 in.); Framed: 88 × 104.2 × 9.6 cm (34 5/8 × 41 × 3 3/4 in.)
Department: Impressionist & Modern Art

Estimate £26,000,000 – 36,000,000

Offered in Impressionist & Modern Art — Evening Sale, 3 September 2026

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A Under raking light

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Relief

Derived from this photograph by shape-from-shading, as a reading aid. A measured relief map requires photometric stereo and accompanies the full condition report.

B Catalogue note

Provenance

Private collection, Paris
Private collection, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Paris, Salon d'Automne, 1904

Literature

Rewald, Cézanne: catalogue raisonné, no. 772

Condition

Unlined. Areas of thin, deliberately unfinished canvas at the left edge are original to the picture and are not losses.

This is a summary. A full written condition report, with raking-light and ultraviolet photography, is issued on request and forms part of the description.

C In the same sale