Caillebotte Retrospective for L.A., Chicago, Paris
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| Gustave Caillebotte, The Floor Scrapers, 1875. Musée d'Orsay |
The Getty Museum is co-organizing a major Gustave Caillebotte exhibition with the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Judging from the title and write-up, "Gustave Caillebotte: Painting Men" will address the bachelor artist's sexuality and "profound questions into the male condition at the heart of Impressionism and Modernism."
The show's 70-some works will include Chicago's panoramic Paris Street; Rainy Day and the Getty's Young Man at His Window (acquired in 2021). Exclusive to the Musée d'Orsay is a simultaneous installation of Caillebotte's bequest of works by fellow Impressionists.
"Gustave Caillebotte: Painting Men" runs in Paris Oct. 8, 2024 to Jan. 19, 2025; at the Getty, Feb. 25 to May 25, 2025; in Chicago, June 22 to Oct. 5, 2025.
Comments
about time someone remarked on the obvious...
--- J. Garcin
I’m very jealous of D’Orsay’s Caillebotte prize that came soon after, or more so of the backing of LVMH.
I can’t believe it’s been two years. But I see it was up as part of the whole bunch of space which was a while ago. I was so impressed with the peace I went back to the Getty twice to look at it.
Of course the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, had the painting of the men on the bridge as part of the Paris, city of Cinema show last year. I know I have to check the dates on that one. Unfortunately that sure was a truncated version of the bigger exhibit at the Musee d’Orsay, Enfin Le Cinéma drawing on many of the holdings within the Musée d’Orsay which obviously we’re not going to go on loan without it being a huge blockbuster exhibition