apples

apples
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In 1895 Ambroise Vollard, a pioneer art dealer in Paris gave him his first one-man show in his gallery. The year he sat for a portrait and found the artist too slow for his liking. Often he got fidgety or fell asleep whereupon Paul had to admonish him, ”You should sit like an apple, an apple does not move.” After many sittings more than hundreds or so Cezanne watching his painting had to admit, “I’m not displeased with the shirt-front.”


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