Look at this painting of a basket of apples and the graphic of a cone, a sphere and a cylinder. The wine bottle has the shape of a cone with a cylinder for the base and a narrower cylinder for the neck. When you eat an apple you know it has a hollow in the top and the bottom but Cézanne has made most of his apples look much more spherical. You can see he was enjoying the other shapes too – the round bowl and basket and the books underneath them, the folds in the cloth and the pile of bread rolls.