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ArtCurial Announces Caillebotte, Le Pont l’Europe Sale

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GUSTAVE CAILLEBOTTE_LE PONT DE L'EUROPE

ArtCurial announces the sale of a Gustave Caillebotte painting of the detail from Le Pont l’Europe.

Paris – Artcurial is privileged to present for auction a major Impressionist icon, Le Pont de l’Europe dated 1876 by Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894).  Coming from a French private collection, the work is entering the market for the first time in 60 years.  With an estimated value between 3 and 4 Million euros, the painting will be presented during the sale of Impressionist and Modern Art on December 2, 2013.

“Given its quality, rarity, and size, the availability on the market of such a major work by Gustave Caillebotte represents a major event for collectors and institutions,” emphasizes Olivier Berman, director of the Impressionist Art department at Artcurial

This magnificent painting by Gustave Caillebotte, a true genius of image, is one of the versions of his famous composition Le Pont de l’Europe from 1876, currently held by the Musée du Petit Palais in Geneva.

The sale is also an integral part of current events since an important retrospective of Gustave Caillebotte at the Bridgestone Museum in Tokyo will open on October 10, 2013.  Between March, 2011 and January, 2012, a major exhibit dedicated to the Caillebotte brothers was organized by the Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris, and later at the Musée National des Beaux-Arts in Québec.

Viewing at Arader Gallery New York
Arader Gallery, 29th East 72nd street, 10021 NY
From November 2 to 6

Viewing at Artcurial Bruxelles
5, avenue Franklin Roosevelt, B-1050 Bruxelles
From November 14 to 18

Viewing at Artcurial Paris
7, rond-point des Champs-Elysées, F-75008 Paris
From November 29 to December 2

Caillebotte Male Nude Sells Privately to Boston MFA

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Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts is swapping a few impressionist works for a Caillebotte because it is a rare impressionist male nude.

The Museum of Fine Arts plans to buy a masterpiece by the Impressionist painter Gustave Caillebotte called “Man at His Bath,’’ but to raise the funds it will sell eight paintings from its collection, including works by Claude Monet, Paul Gauguin, Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro, and Auguste Renoir. The works, valued at between $16.6 million and $24.3 million, were all gifts to the MFA. […] The Caillebotte painting is from a private foundation and has been on loan to the National Gallery in London since the later 1990s. […]

The Caillebotte, which has been hanging on loan in the MFA’s Impressionist Galleries since late April […]

The Sotheby’s estimates suggest the Monet, a view across water of the fort at Antibes, will fetch $5 million to $7 million. […]

The next-highest estimate, $3 million to $5 million, is for a monumental painting, “Pearl Mosque, Delhi,’’ by the highly regarded Russian artist Vasily Vereshchagin. The other six paintings are valued at between $300,000 and $3 million.

For Masterpiece, MFA Will Sell Eight in Collection (Boston Globe)

Shorenstein Collection at Christie's

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The Shorensteins, a San Francisco real estate family, had an unusual collection of Impressionist and Asian art that will be sold through Christie’s. It The Asian works will be sold in Hong Kong but the Impressionist paintings will join a few others in New York this November, according to Carol Vogel in The New York Times:

Among the best of them is Caillebotte’s “Seine à Argenteuil,” a sun-drenched scene of racing boats on the Seine from 1882. Estimated at $5 million to $7 million, it will go on the block Nov. 3 in Christie’s Impressionist and modern art auction. So will a portrait of three of Pissarro’s children in the family garden, a canvas that he painted in 1892 and that is expected to fetch $3 million to $4 million. There is also an early landscape by Seurat from 1882 that is expected to bring $1.8 million to $2.5 million and will be sold alongside four drawings and one painting from another sellerContinue Reading

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