In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
Three ripe bananas and three shiny oranges rest on a white tablecloth. Renoir offset the bananas' contours with thick white lines and encircled the oranges with the same glowing golden-brown that he used for the background. As a result, the fruits seem to vibrate with the energy of living bodies. If the recumbent bananas seem to recall reclining nudes, it's no accident: Renoir once remarked that he painted women "like beautiful fruit."
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Auguste Renoir — Peaches on a Plate
Émile Bernard — Still Life with Fruit
Paul Cézanne — Fruit on a Table (Fruits sur la table)
Paul Cézanne — The Large Pear (La Grosse poire)
Paul Cézanne — Pommes, orange et citron
Paul Cézanne — Two and a Half Apples (Deux pommes et demie)
Paul Cézanne — Still life, pear and green apples
Paul Cézanne — Apples and Cloth (Pommes et tapis)
Paul Cézanne — Two fruits
Paul Cézanne — Fruit
Paul Cézanne — Milk Can and Apples
Gustave Caillebotte — L'Assiette de pêches
