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Painting of a basket of green and red-yellow apples spilling over into a white cloth placed on a wooden table, with a dark green bottle and a plate of pale biscuits behind.

The Basket of Apples

Paul Cézanne · c. 1893

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Palette

Ash
 50% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.9:1
Raw umber
 20% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.2:1
Iron
 20% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.2:1
Tan
 5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.3:1
Cinnamon
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.5:1
Olive
 2% of the image
Green · text contrast 4.7:1

Colours measured by this site from the museum image (k-means in CIELAB). Names are the nearest in our own list and describe how the colour looks, not the pigment. Text on each chip uses whichever of black or white contrasts more (WCAG ratio shown). How

Details

Artist
Paul Cézanne
Date
c. 1893
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
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.)
Place
France
Period
Post-Impressionism · 19th century
Themes
Still life
Main colour
Grey · lightness 49, colourfulness 12

Art Institute of Chicago, Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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