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Look at the table and it will not hold still. The bottle leans, the basket of apples tips forward as if about to spill, and the two edges of the tablecloth do not line up across the white folds. For a long time people assumed Cezanne had simply gotten the perspective wrong. Technical study of the paint says otherwise. The tilt and the misaligned edge are already there in his underdrawing, put down before he began, so the instability was the plan, not a slip of the hand. He built it around 1893, working slowly the way he always did, holding several viewpoints in one still life at once. That refusal to settle on a single fixed angle is exactly what the next generation seized on. The young painters who became the Cubists treated a table of apples like this one as a starting point.