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Call For Papers: Join the WPI at the 109th CAA Annual Conference, Feb. 10-13, 2021

The WPI is pleased to announce its participation in the 109th CAA Annual Conference, taking place February 10-13, 2021 in New York. Join us for a rich discussion led by the WPI’s very own Samantha Rowe, Digital Archivist. ABSTRACT PAPER THIN: WALKING THE LINE BETWEEN ART AND EPHEMERA Photographs, handwritten notes, source materials and other…
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First Glimpse Into a Historic Photo Archive

The WPI’s Photothèque Archives is a remarkable collection of over 25,000 black and white photographs originally assembled by the Wildenstein Institute throughout the 20th century. These photographs were intended to facilitate staff research on a variety of art historical subjects, ranging from 13th c. religious relief sculptures to 20th c. artists such as Mikhail Larionov.…
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Announcing: The Tom Wesselmann Digital Corpus

A new approach to catalogue raisonné research The WPI invites you to explore the Tom Wesselmann Digital Corpus: a searchable database of works recorded by the Estate of the Artist that incorporates the WPI’s ongoing research for the forthcoming Tom Wesselmann Digital Catalogue Raisonné. About the Digital Corpus The Wildenstein Plattner Institute (WPI) is working…
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In print: The Letters of Edgar Degas, edited by Theodore Reff

(Left) Marcellin Desboutin, Degas Reading a Newspaper, 1875, oil on canvas(Right) Walter Barnes, Degas at Dieppe, 1885, photograph The WPI is pleased to announce its latest publication: The Letters of Edgar Degas edited by Theodore Reff. This hardbound, critical edition includes transcriptions of 1,240 letters Degas wrote over the course of fifty years. Reff, Professor Emeritus of…
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The Things of Friendship

Still lifes are often considered a minor genre or a plain subject of study; in fact, the genre is not as static and silent as we think. In the nineteenth century, the genre revealed the intimate bonds that united several Impressionist painters. As discreet witnesses to the daily life of these artists, still lifes can…
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Digitization of the Vlaminck Archive Completed

As part of the WPI’s digitization initiative, the Maurice de Vlaminck archives have been processed and digitized. Information concerning more than 3,000 artworks is now available upon request through our website. The Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc., is the sole owner of approximately seven thousand research dossiers concerning the work of Maurice de Vlaminck. Nearly three thousand works of…
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Théodore Duret in Japan

Almost 150 years ago, Théodore Duret (1838-1927), a defender of the Impressionists, went on a world tour with Henry Cernuschi.1 It was on this fateful tour, from 1871 to 1872, that Duret encountered the arts of Japan. Of the first stops in London and the United States, Duret left no written record of his travels.…
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Claude Monet’s Encounter with the Mediterranean – Part 2

The Reception of the Riviera Paintings As we discovered previously, Monet’s encounter with the Mediterranean coast was torn between a fascination for its lush vegetation and the difficulty to render the atmosphere of the Riviera. Upon returning to Giverny in late April 1884, Monet felt apprehensive of his paintings’ critical reception, but in fact was…
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Claude Monet’s Encounter with the Mediterranean – Part 1

In December 1883, Claude Monet left Giverny and traveled to the French and Italian Rivieras for one week with his friend and fellow Impressionist, Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Following Monet’s military service in Algeria twenty years earlier, he had become an avid traveler. Monet realized a number of works during visits to England in 1870 and the…
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Claude Monet: The Water Lily Pond

In Giverny, a small village located about 75km west of Paris, Claude Monet owned the “Pressoir” house as well as the gardens that surrounded it. He also rented a piece of land with a small body of water between the Chemin du Roy and the Epte river where he cultivated a few aquatic plants [Fig.…
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