Gustave Caillebotte: Urban Impressionist

Art
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Gustave Caillebotte
Prepared by an international team of schol-
URBAN IMPRESSIONIST
ars to accompany a major exhibition organized by the Réunion des Musées Nationaux/
Introductory essay by KIRK VARNEDOE
Musée d’Orsay, Paris, and The Art Institute
Text by ANNE DISTEL, DOUGLAS W.
of Chicago, Gustave Caillebotte: Urban
DRUICK, GLORIA GROOM, RODOLPHE
RAPETTI, and JULIA SAGRAVES
Impressionist features in-depth discussion
C
eight of his drawings and studies, many of
Caillebotte, this handsome volume offers
and his crucial role as an early patron and
new information and insight regarding one
promoter of Impressionism. An illustrated
of the most engaging painters and prosely-
checklist of Caillebotte’s bequest, a chronol-
tizers of the Impressionist movement.
ogy, and a selected bibliography provide
of eighty-nine of his paintings and twenty-
ommemorating the hundredth
them from little-known private collections.
anniversary of the death of Gustave
Thoughtful essays examine both his work
additional invaluable information.
As Kirk Varnedoe explains in his cogent
essay: Caillebotte “haggled and negotiated to
keep the group together through periods of
fractious disagreement; and when he had
to, he rented the exhibition space, paid for
the advertising, bought frames, and hung the
pictures.” He had a remarkable eye for quality, and his superlative collection of work by
his colleagues–which was bequeathed to the
French nation and accepted only after furious public controversy–was for many years
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Kirk Varnedoe is Chief Curator of Painting
and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern
Art, New York. Anne Distel is Chief Curator
at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Douglas W.
Druick and Gloria Groom are curators at
The Art Institute of Chicago. Rodolphe
Rapetti is curator at the Musée d’Orsay, and
Julia Sagraves is an independent scholar.
more famous than his own work, which has
become increasingly popular in the last two
decades.
Caillebotte’s vivid representations of Parisian life bridged the gap between Realism
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of the countryside outside Paris.
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