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Henri Lebasque | Afternoon Tea on the Terrace in Sainte-Maxime, 1914

Henri Lebasque (1865-1937) first visited the French Riveria in 1906 at the suggestion of his friend Henri Manguin.
In 1924, Lebasque relocated to the region to permanently take advantage of its unparalleled light.
In the intervening years, the artist who would earn the sobriquet "Painter of Joy and Light" returned often.
In 1914, he brought his family to the town of Sainte-Maxime, about halfway between Cannes and St. Tropez.
Here, he would undertake an idyllic series of family portraits set on the terrace of their waterfront house.

Henri Lebasque | Afternoon Tea on the Terrace in Sainte-Maxime, 1914 | Christie's

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Gustave Caillebotte | Les Jardiniers, 1877

Exhibited publicly only once in the past century and a half, Gustave Caillebotte’s (1848-1894) Les Jardiniers is a celebrated early example of the artist’s garden compositions, which was rediscovered in the 1990s, having remained in the same family collection for over a hundred years.
Painted in 1877, the scene depicts the well-appointed kitchen garden at the Caillebotte family’s country home in the village of Yerres, about 20 kilometers southwest of Paris.
The artist was a teenager when his parents acquired the property as a summer residence, drawn by the grand, Neo-Classical style house and extensive grounds that stretched down to the banks of the nearby river Yerres.

Gustave Caillebotte | Les jardiniers, 1875 | Christie's

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Pan’s Party, 1879

Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted this florid allegorical canvas, La fête de Pan, in the summer of 1879.
Commissioned to adorn the drawing room of the Bérard family’s country home, the Château de Wargemont, La fête de Pan depicts a spring festival devoted to the ancient Greek god, Pan - a rare example of a mythological subject in Renoir’s oeuvre.
This jubilant painting combines the artist’s careful observations of nature en plein air with his imaginative fantasies of beauty, both feminine and floral.


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Picasso and the still life

For Picasso, life in all its forms - its tragedies, joys, and banalities; his great loves and his children; the people, places and events that shaped him - fed his insatiable need to create.
Consequently, every one of his works is deeply autobiographical - a reflection of a time, emotion or state of mind.
Just as a portrait by the artist is never just a straightforward depiction of a sitter, so a still life is never solely a meaningless assortment of objects.


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Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Tête de jeune fille coiffée d'un chapeau de jardin, 1895

"I have taken up again, never to abandon it, my old style, soft and light of touch", Renoir wrote to his dealer Durand-Ruel in 1888, full of enthusiasm for his latest efforts.
"This is to give you some idea of my new and final manner of painting - like Fragonard, but not so good" (quoted in J. House, Renoir in the Barnes Foundation, New Haven, 2012, p. 121).
Renoir's new approach represented a sea-change after the controversial Ingres-inspired method he cultivated in the previous decade.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Tête de jeune fille coiffée d'un chapeau de jardin, 1895 | Christie's

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Salvador Dalí | Fleurs, 1948

Salvador Dalí often showcased his sense of humor and imagination by painting flowers.
In 1972, Dalí released 15 color lithographs of “Surrealist Flowers”, featuring many of his most famous symbols.
In one print, the petals of white lilies morph into melting clocks.

In another, a bouquet of tulips sprouts actual lips.
The suite also features roses covered in drawers, anemones growing forks and gladioli wearing hoop earrings.
Dalí returned to florals in 1981, painting a playful mix of butterflies, insects and roses in a series he self-referentially titled “Flordalí”.
While Flordali II (1981) exceeded $320,000 at a Christie’s auction in 2016, editioned prints of the motif remain on the market.


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Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Tête de jeune fille, 1882

Painted in 1882, "Tête de jeune fille" dates from a key period of transition within Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s career.
It was at the beginning of that year that the pioneering Impressionist dealer Paul Durand-Ruel had begun to purchase Renoir’s work, granting the artist a new level of professional and financial security, which in turn enabled him to travel abroad for the first time.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Tête de jeune fille, 1882 | Christie's

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Pablo Picasso | Boulevard de Clichy, Paris, 1901

Artists from all countries came to Paris to find a connection to the modern era.
On his first trip to Paris, Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) painted a street in Montmartre, the neighborhood that was popular among artists, in the Impressionist style.
The picture is part of a group of about thirty works that the then nineteen-year-old artist presented at his solo exhibition in the Galerie Ambroise Vollard in 1901 in Paris. | Source: © Museum Barberini, Potsdam

Pablo Picasso | Boulevard de Clichy, Paris, 1901 | Museum Barberini, Potsdam

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René Rousseau-Decelle | Le pesage de Longchamp, 1910

René Rousseau-Decelle studied with the master of French Academic painting, William Bouguereau, in the waning years of the older artist’s life.
It is clear that the young Rousseau-Decelle quickly moved away from the tightly-painted images of French peasant girls and threw himself headlong into the world of the haute bourgeoisie of fin-de-siècle Paris.
Like his master, Rousseau-Decelle found a very commercially successful niche and adhered to that formula throughout his career.

René Rousseau-Decelle | Le pesage de Longchamp, 1910 (detail)

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Vincent van Gogh | Le pont de Trinquetaille, 1888

The fifteen months that Van Gogh spent at Arles in 1888-1889 represent a pivotal moment in his career, "the zenith, the climax, the greatest flowering of Van Gogh's decade of artistic activity", according to Ronald Pickvance.
Freed from the pressures of urban life and inspired by the brilliant Provençal light, the artist integrated the results of months of experimentation and produced one modern masterpiece after another. With its bold composition and expressive palette, "Le pont de Trinquetaille" epitomizes his mature style.


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Camille Pissarro | Petite bonne flamande dite 'La Rosa', 1896

Petite bonne flamande dite 'La Rosa' / Little Flemish Girl Called Rosa - is one of a small group of paintings that Camille Pissarro painted in 1896, which depict a young Flemish girl, Rosa, who was at the time the Pissarro family’s housemaid.
‘I’m doing a few figure paintings based on la Rosa’ (letter from Pissarro to L. Pissarro, in J. Pissarro and C. Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, Pissarro, Catalogue critique des peintures, vol. III, Paris, 2005, p. 694), Pissarro wrote to his son Lucien on 4 December 1895 from Paris.


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Paul Gauguin | Young Man with a Flower behind his Ear, 1891


Originally in the collection of the great modern master Henri Matisse, Paul Gauguin's striking and evocative portrait of a young man, clad in a pink European blouse and loose cravat, with the native adornment of a small white tiaré blossom tucked over his left ear, is among the first paintings the artist completed after arriving in Tahiti in 1891.
The forthright charm of this painting stems from Gauguin's sensitive characterization of his sitter, a handsome and thoughtful man of whom the artist was clearly quite fond.

The sincere, underlying simplicity of this three-quarter view, bust-length portrait, moreover betokens a significant story - indeed, a profoundly transformative event - in the life and career of the great artist, in which this young Tahitian served as a catalyst and an invaluable teacher.
The young man with whom Gauguin became acquainted during his initial months in Tahiti was named Jotefa - or so the artist called him in a later draft of Noa Noa (“Fragrance”), the account he began in 1893 of his first island sojourn.
It was this young boy who led Gauguin through the exotic landscape of the island in search of wood for the artist’s sculpture.
As a result of their contact and this seminal journey, Gauguin met with that breakthrough revelation he had been seeking of completely immersing himself in an indigenous culture and becoming a Maori.
Painted in the midst of this deeply transformative Tahitian period, Jeune homme à la fleur could be seen to pay tribute to this young man, encapsulating the compelling personal and artistic adventure that Gauguin undertook in the South Seas.
The importance of Jeune homme à la fleur within Gauguin’s oeuvre is reflected not only by its unique provenance - after Matisse, it was later owned by Lillie P. Bliss, one of the original founders of the Museum of Modern Art, New York - but the painting has also been included in some of the most prominent exhibitions of the artist in the twentieth century. | © Christie's


Originariamente nella collezione del grande maestro moderno Henri Matisse, il ritratto suggestivo e evocativo di un giovane Paul Gauguin, vestito con una camicetta europea rosa e un foulard sciolto, con l'ornamento nativo di un piccolo fiore di tiaré bianco nascosto sopra l'orecchio sinistro, è tra i primi dipinti l'artista completò dopo essere arrivato a Tahiti nel 1891.
Il fascino schietto di questo dipinto deriva dalla delicata caratterizzazione di Gauguin della sua scrittrice, un uomo bello e riflessivo di cui l'artista era chiaramente piuttosto affezionato.
La sincera semplicità di fondo di questa visione a tre quarti, ritratto a figura intera, inoltre, raccoglie una storia significativa - anzi, un evento profondamente trasformativo - nella vita e nella carriera del grande artista, in cui questo giovane tahitiano è stato un catalizzatore e un insegnante inestimabile.
Il giovane con cui Gauguin conobbe i suoi primi mesi a Tahiti fu chiamato Jotefa - o così l'artista lo chiamò in una successiva bozza di Noa Noa ("Fragranza"), il racconto che iniziò nel 1893 del suo primo soggiorno sull'isola.
Fu questo giovane ragazzo che condusse Gauguin attraverso il paesaggio esotico dell'isola alla ricerca di legno per la scultura dell'artista.
Come risultato del loro contatto e di questo viaggio fondamentale, Gauguin incontrò quella rivelazione rivoluzionaria che aveva cercato di immergersi completamente in una cultura indigena e diventare un Maori.
Dipinto nel mezzo di questo periodo tahitiano profondamente trasformativo, Jeune homme à la fleur è stato visto per rendere omaggio a questo giovane, incapsulando l'avvincente avventura personale e artistica che Gauguin ha intrapreso nei Mari del Sud.
L'importanza di Jeune homme à la fleur all'interno dell'opera di Gauguin si riflette non solo nella sua singolare provenienza - dopo Matisse, fu in seguito di proprietà di Lillie P. Bliss, uno dei fondatori originali del Museum of Modern Art, New York - ma il la pittura è stata inclusa anche in alcune delle mostre più importanti dell'artista nel ventesimo secolo.





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Gaetano Gandolfi | I Disegni

Gaetano Gandolfi (1734-1802) è stato un pittore Italiano del tardo barocco e del primo periodo neoclassico, attivo a Bologna.
Gaetano Gandolfi frequentò l'Accademia Clementina di Bologna, ma su di lui l'influenza determinante fu esercitata dal fratello Ubaldo.
Come studente all'Accademia Clementina ha vinto due medaglie per la scultura e quattro medaglie per i suoi disegni.