NYAB Event - Gustave Caillebotte "Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea"

Gustave Caillebotte "Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea"

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At Brooklyn Museum
Media: Painting

This major exhibition presents forty paintings by the French Impressionist Gustave Caillebotte. Displayed along with the urban landscapes for which he is best known are Caillebotte’s river scenes and seascapes. They reveal his passion for subjects in which water plays a central role—as an enigmatic, magical element reflecting its surroundings, as an essential atmospheric ingredient, and as a scene for sporting activities. Included are works depicting rowers, sailboats at Argenteuil, the Normandy coast, the banks of the Seine, and the villages of Yerres and Petit Genevilliers.

The highlights of the exhibition include The Floor Scrapers (1876) and House Painters (1877), both of which reveal the artist’s fascination with urban labor and his interest in depicting the male body; Oarsmen Rowing on the Yerres (1877), a painting that reduces the landscape to reflections in the water and subordinates nature to the physical activity of the rowers; and Regattas at Villers (1880), a work that captures the atmosphere the artist experienced both as a painter and a sailor.

[Image: Gustave Caillebotte "The Floor Scrapers" (1876) Oil on canvas]