Wealthy enough not to have to worry about selling his work, Caillebotte championed the Impressionist cause.
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The impressionist artworks were identified by museum director Lukas Gloor after a thorough inspection.
"Joe is an absolute genius, " says New York dealer David Nash, who used to run the impressionist and modern paintings department at Sotheby's.
Edouard Vuillard was not as widely known as the Impressionist masters.
Phillip Conisbee, Senior Curator at Washington's National Gallery, said Cezanne's early still lifes were stolid and dull until Pisarro taught him to loosen his brushstrokes in the Impressionist style.
He has bought out Sotheby's New York jewellery experts en bloc, taken half its French furniture team and is seeking to seduce to Phillips the impressionist, modern picture and contemporary art expertise of Sotheby's and Christie's in London, with all the multi-million-dollar business and contacts they can bring.
Just how difficult this will be can be seen from the fact that when asked about the coming sales, both houses ignore the Old-Master sales that will be held in New York at the end of January and focus instead on the Impressionist and modern sales the following month.
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We traveled the museum, looking at pretty paintings, talking about the famed Impressionist, and even more so about the adrenaline rush of visiting a world-class museum.
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Marie-Therese was the focus of several portraits by the post-impressionist, including the 1932 work La Reve (The Dream).
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There is growing rivalry between those who measure corruption by looking at bureaucracy, and those who prefer the more impressionist indicator of perceptions.
The French Impressionist painting is now being held in a safe.
Two of the American Impressionist works here are 20th-century throwbacks.
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An even more egregious omission, given that this book attempts to look at how cuisine defines French culture as a whole, is visual art: there is no mention of the sumptuous culinary still-lifes by Chardin, the countless Impressionist picnics, brioches by Bonnard or mealtimes by Matisse, images that have literally transformed food into art in a specifically French way.
"Bidders, both new to the market as well as seasoned buyers, reacted with great enthusiasm, in particular to the selection of impressionist works that were considered to be the strongest offering in many years, " said Newman.
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In the late 19th century, Impressionist painters challenged the status quo by creating pieces void of historical significance or realism, emphasizing that art need not be practical.
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Dealers said this reshuffling of Christie's marquee categories reflects Asia's rising clout but also underscores the dwindling supply of Impressionist and modern masterpieces still circulating in the marketplace.
The evening auction of Impressionist and Modern Art made history by realizing the highest total for any auction ever held in Europe.
Despite the downturn, Impressionist and Modern Art has fared better than other genres.
In the 1980s, Japanese buyers dominated the market for Impressionist and Modern art.
When they had shown the French Neo-Impressionist Georges Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" in 1887, the XX artists lauded his well-mannered painting of a Parisian crowd.
Take, for example, the wealthy industrialist Samuel Courtauld, scion of the Courtauld textile empire, whose collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings assembled during the 1920s and 30s helped permanently establish their importance in the post-war period.
It seems almost frivolous to mention that at the same time many works of art that adorned the offices, boardrooms and waiting rooms of the companies--from Impressionist paintings to a child's watercolor--as well as the World Trade Towers themselves were obliterated.
His passion for painting began in May 1922, when the Burlington Fine Arts Club in Savile Row, London, mounted a loan exhibition of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings entitled The French School of the Last Hundred Years.
Sotheby's said it was the first time since May 2006, when art markets were flourishing, that one of its Impressionist sales exceeded the high pre-sale estimate - in this case by almost 10%.
The recent Modern and Impressionist auctions at Christie's and Sotheby's gave art-market watchers a lot to digest.
Above the fireplace hung an Impressionist Wolf Kahn landscape of gorgeous pastel colors.
More progressive artists absorb the looser brushwork of the French Barbizon and Impressionist painters, and often Impressionism's lighter palette.
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But there is much more to Philly than history, from cheesesteaks and fine dining to a truly stunning world class assortment of museums and the largest collection of impressionist French art outside of Paris.
And a series of lawsuits and a damaging BBC documentary about the Guy Wildenstein, the pre-eminent authority on all things Impressionist, have made some skeptical about the integrity of his determinations, as well.
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"The collaboration is about having people come in to see beautiful works of art and objects from jewelry to paintings, in particular for the spring seasons kicking off the spring sales next week with our impressionist and modern evening sale and day sale on the 8th and 9th, " says Ms. Kim.
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