Cailllebot: Peindre les hommes (Musée d’Orsay)
Allan Scott, Gloria Groom, Paul Perrin
Musée d'Orsay & Hazan, 2024
€45,00
Although he was relegated to the background for a long time, Caillebotte is now considered one of the major figures of the Impressionist group. A painter, collector and patron of the arts, he trained with Bonnat and was close to Degas, Renoir, de Nittis and Pissarro, with whom he exhibited from 1876 to 1880. Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) was a visionary painter who dared to use truncated frames, accelerated perspective and dizzying plunges, in a style that could easily be described as ‘cinematographic’. Urban views and bourgeois interiors were his main subjects. His painting blended the lessons of realism with the ambitions of Impressionism. After some procrastination, when he died, the French government agreed to bequeath his collection to the Musée du Luxembourg, thus making Impressionism part of history.
This autumn, the Musée d’Orsay is focusing on the male figures in his works, examining the radical modernity of the artist’s masterpieces in the light of the new way in which art history looks at masculinity in the 19th century. Beaux Arts Éditions accompanies the exhibition with a look back at the life and work of this great actor, friend, patron and promoter of Impressionism. (IN FRANS)
ISBN: 9782754117074
