Basket of Apples

Provenance

Slydell Gallery, New York, New York

Related Works 

A German Poem, oil on canvas, 13 × 15½ inches, signed lower right: Claude Raguet Hirst.; New Britian Museum of American Art, New Britian, Connecticut

A Gentleman’s Table, after 1890, oil on canvas, 18 x 32 inches; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C

Note

Claude Raguet Hirst, an Ohio-born artist, submitted her work under the name Claude R. Hirst to obscure her gender and secure recognition in the male-dominated art world. She was the only woman of her era to achieve prominence with the trompe-l’oeil technique. Hirst’s compositions, such as Basket of Apples, are typically set against dark backgrounds, containing objects rich in symbolism centrally arranged in a pyramidal or triangular formation.