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A Peculiar Still Life
Continue reading: A Peculiar Still LifeIt is unlikely to find in Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s oeuvre a work that resembles this still life and it is almost impossible to determine its subject: is it a vase? A lamp? A piece of fruit? A reproduction of this symmetrical composition that recalls Antique Roman frescos was included in Marc Edler and Albert André’s L’Atelier…
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The Tom Wesselmann Catalogue Raisonné and Digital Corpus
Continue reading: The Tom Wesselmann Catalogue Raisonné and Digital CorpusThe WPI is pleased to announce the launch of the Tom Wesselmann Catalogue Raisonné. Working in close collaboration with the Estate of the artist, the WPI will author a dynamic online publication that will link to digitized material from the artist’s archives. In addition to the wealth of archival documentation at the Wesselmann studio, the…
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WPI’s Vlaminck Digital Database
Continue reading: WPI’s Vlaminck Digital DatabaseUPDATE: On December 14, 2022, the WPI announced the creation of a new Maurice de Vlaminck committee to examine requests for inclusion in the artist’s catalogue raisonné. For more details, click here. Information on approximately 3000 works to be included in the WPI’s Vlaminck Digital Database will be available upon request by late…
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First exhibition of Kees Van Dongen at MM. Bernheim Jeune, 15 rue Richepanse, Paris, (November 25–Decembre 8, 1908)
Continue reading: First exhibition of Kees Van Dongen at MM. Bernheim Jeune, 15 rue Richepanse, Paris, (November 25–Decembre 8, 1908)In 1908 in Paris, two one-man exhibitions celebrated the work of Kees Van Dongen: one at Galeries Kahnweiler in March, the other at MM. Bernheim Jeune in November/December. At MM. Bernheim-Jeune, Van Dongen showed 89 works: 64 paintings, which appeared dated from 1892 to 1902 and by chronological order in the catalogue, 11 watercolors, 1…
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Wedding Menu of Jean-Pierre Hoschedé and Suzanne Costadau at Claude Monet’s Giverny property (December 12, 1903)
Continue reading: Wedding Menu of Jean-Pierre Hoschedé and Suzanne Costadau at Claude Monet’s Giverny property (December 12, 1903)On December 12, 1903, Jean-Pierre Hoschedé (who became Claude Monet’s step-son when Monet wedded his mother Alice Hoschedé in 1892) married Suzanne Costadau at Monet’s home in Giverny. The host seemed to have left nothing up to chance for the wedding reception. This postcard, with a “Monsieur Claude Monet” header, shows again how much the…
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Who is this woman?
Continue reading: Who is this woman?In 1899, while examining Edouard Manet’s Jeune femme voilée at the home of the collector Charles Deudon (1832–1914), Pierre-Auguste Renoir alluded to an “ugly veiled woman” without identifying her (letter dated February 5, 1899 to Paul Durand-Ruel). Renoir did not recognized his close friend Berthe Morisot, who had passed away three years earlier. Yet in…
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Playing Guess Who in Paul Ferdinand Gachet’s Family Album
Continue reading: Playing Guess Who in Paul Ferdinand Gachet’s Family AlbumThis family album comes from the archive of Paul Ferdinand Gachet (1828–1909), a French doctor, a collector and friend of Cézanne and Van Gogh, but also an amateur artist who painted under the pseudonym Paul Van Ryssel. The album was organized, annotated and augmented by his son Paul-Louis Gachet (1873–1962), a painter and sculptor who…
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Renoir’s Fragments
Continue reading: Renoir’s Fragments“These sketches are what he likes best, that’s where he puts all of himself, and deploys all of his audacity.” Albert André, 1925. It is by examining the photographs made from the glass plates found in the archives of Ambroise Vollard, one of Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s last dealers, that we can find a number of canvases…
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Henri “Le Douanier” Rousseau, the Unsung Composer
Continue reading: Henri “Le Douanier” Rousseau, the Unsung ComposerHenri Rousseau’s “Aztec landscapes”are known to stir his viewers’ imagination thanks to their fascinating strangeness. But who knew that Rousseau also composed songs, piano pieces, compositions for orchestra, and received an award from the Académie littéraire et musicale de France for La Valse à Clémence, a violin piece he wrote as an homage to his…
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Art Dealings in Times of War: The Records of Raphaël Gérard
Continue reading: Art Dealings in Times of War: The Records of Raphaël GérardTo this day, much remains to be uncovered on collaborationism, art looting, and the surprising boom in prices during the World War II art market. With the arrival of German buyers on the market, many art dealers attempted to turn a profit even if this meant sliding towards illegality. Belgian gallerist Raphaël Gérard was one…