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Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894)

L'Assiette de pêches

Price realised GBP 851,250
Estimate
GBP 800,000 – GBP 1,200,000
Closed: 27 Feb 2019
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Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894)

L'Assiette de pêches

Price realised GBP 851,250
Closed: 27 Feb 2019
Price realised GBP 851,250
Closed: 27 Feb 2019
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Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894)
L'Assiette de pêches
signed by the estate 'G. Caillebotte' (lower left)
oil on canvas
15 x 18 1/8 in. (38 x 46 cm.)
Painted circa 1882
Provenance
Jules Dubois, Paris, a gift from the artist.
Ambroise Vollard, Paris (no. 5157), by circa 1893, until at least 1938, and probably thence by descent.
Anonymous sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 27 November 1940, lot 38 (incorrectly titled 'Les pommes').
Private collection, Paris, by whom acquired at the above sale.
Anonymous sale, Palais d’Orsay, Paris, 12 December 1979, lot 55.
Galerie Schmit, Paris (no. A.5829), by whom acquired at the above sale.
Private collection, Boston, by whom acquired from the above, in 1980.
Anonymous sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 10 December 1985, lot 51.
Private collection, Santa Monica, by 1995.
Martha Parrish & James Reinish, Inc., New York (no. PR1344A).
Private collection, United States, by whom acquired from the above, in 2000.
Literature
M. Berhaut, Caillebotte, sa vie et son oeuvre: Catalogue raisonné des peintures et pastels, Paris, 1978, no. 210, p. 152 (illustrated).
M. Berhaut, Caillebotte, Catalogue raisonné des peintures et pastels, Paris, 1994, no. 239, p. 163 (illustrated).
R. A. Rabinow & J. Warman, ‘Selected Chronology’, in exh. cat., Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2006, p. 275.
P. Wittmer, ‘Au temps de l’absinthe’, in exh. cat., Caillebotte, Au cœur de l’Impressionnisme, Fondation de L'Hermitage, Lausanne, 2005, p. 130 (note 44).
Exhibited
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gustave Caillebotte, Urban Impressionist, June - September 1995, no. 51, p. 11 (illustrated).
Special notice
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Sale room notice
This painting has been requested for the forthcoming Gustave Caillebotte- Impressionist and Modern exhibition to be held at the Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, June - November 2020.

Please note this work is signed by the estate 'G. Caillebotte' (lower left) and the provenance should read:

Jules Dubois, Paris, a gift from the artist.
Ambroise Vollard, Paris (no. 5157), by circa 1893, until at least 1938, and probably thence by descent.
Anonymous sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 27 November 1940, lot 38 (incorrectly titled 'Les pommes').
Private collection, Paris, by whom acquired at the above sale.
Anonymous sale, Palais d’Orsay, Paris, 12 December 1979, lot 55.
Galerie Schmit, Paris (no. A.5829), by whom acquired at the above sale.
Private collection, Boston, by whom acquired from the above, in 1980.
Anonymous sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 10 December 1985, lot 51.
Private collection, Santa Monica, by 1995.
Martha Parrish & James Reinish, Inc., New York (no. PR1344A).
Private collection, United States, by whom acquired from the above, in 2000.

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