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    • Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894
    Lot 41

    Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894)

    Vase de glaïeuls

    Price realised

    USD 352,000

    Estimate

    USD 400,000 - USD 600,000

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    Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894)
    Vase de glaïeuls
    bears signature 'G. Caillebotte' (lower right)
    oil on canvas
    31 7/8 x 25½ in. (81 x 64.7 cm.)
    Painted in Trouville, 1887-1888

    Provenance

    Estate of the artist.
    Private collection, France.

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    Literature and exhibited

    Literature

    M. Berhaut, Caillebotte l'impressionniste, Lausanne-Paris, 1968, p. 39 (illustrated in color, pl. 18).
    M. Berhaut, Gustave Caillebotte, sa vie et son oeuvre, catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint des peintures et pastels, Paris, 1978, no. 325 (illustrated; illustrated again in color, p. 60).
    M.-J. de Balanda, Gustave Caillebotte, Lausanne, 1988, p. 138 (illustrated in color, p. 139).
    M. Berhaut, Gustave Caillebotte, sa vie et son oeuvre, catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint des peintures et pastels, Paris, 1994, p. 207, no. 361 (illustrated).


    Exhibited

    Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., Exposition rétrospective d'oeuvres de Gustave Caillebotte, June 1894, no. 95.
    Paris, Galerie Beaux-Arts, Rétrospective Gustave Caillebotte, May-July 1951, no. 51.
    Chartres, Musée de Chartres, Caillebotte et ses amis impressionnistes, June-September 1965, no. 31.
    London, Wildenstein & Co., Ltd., Gustave Caillebotte 1848-1894, June-July 1966, no. 34.
    New York, Wildenstein & Co., Inc., A Loan Exhibition of Paintings Gustave Caillebotte, September-October 1968, no. 46.
    Brunoy, Musée de Brunoy, Gustave Caillebotte, un peintre dans son jardin, 1987, no. 11.


    Lot Essay

    In 1881 Gustave Caillebotte moved from Paris to Petit-Gennevilliers, near Argenteuil. Here he was able to indulge in his favorite pastimes of painting and horticulture. In previous works the artist had depicted the garden as an extension of the bourgeois home. However, with the purchase of Petit-Gennevilliers, Caillebotte's interest in nature and still-lifes began to parallel his interest in gardening, allowing him to combine horticulture with his artistic and decorative interests. As Pierre Wittmer writes:

    "The garden at Petit-Gennevilliers became a horticultural laboratory and an artist's studio, where the experimental propagation of plants provided the subject matter for paintings which recorded the passage of the seasons through the cycle of their plants. In spring Caillebotte depicted clumps of hyacinths, a group of multicoloured pansies along the edge of a small lawn, as well as vases of cut flowers... In autumn, his attention turned to his dahlias, grown in the bed laid out to the south-west of the house, and chrysanthemums" (P. Wittmer, "Note on Caillebotte as an Horticulturalist," Gustave Caillebotte, The Unknown Impressionist, London, 1996, pp. 204-205).

    The present painting bears the signature 'G. Caillebotte,' applied after the death of the artist by Martial Caillebotte, the artist's brother, who along with Pierre-Auguste Renoir was the executor of this estate. In the absence of an estate stamp Martial and Renoir applied Caillebotte's name, in a manner distinctly unlike his actual signature, to the canvases remaining in the studio.

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    Pre-Lot Text

    Property of a French Private Collection

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