CAILLEBOTTE : PEINDRE LES HOMMES

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• AuthorAllan Scott, Gloria Groom, Paul Perrin
• PublisherHazan, musée d'Orsay
• Date of publicationOctobre 2024
• Language(s)French
• IllustrationsColour, b&w ill.
• Pages256
• DescriptionHardback
• Price (VAT incl.)45.00 €
• AvailabilityOn order

Exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay, 8 October 2024 - 19 January 2025

Bourgeois and workers strolling through Haussmann's Paris, floor planners and canoers caught in the effort, young bachelors playing cards or watching the city from their balconies, naked men at their toilette... Male figures and portraits of men dominate the work of Gustave Caillebotte (1848 - 1894), unlike his colleagues Degas, Manet or Renoir.

At a time of triumph for virility and republican fraternity, but also of the first crisis of traditional masculinity, the novelty and power of these images questioned both the social and sexual order. Looking beyond his own identity as a young, wealthy Parisian bachelor, Caillebotte was at the heart of Impressionism and modernity, raising profound questions about the male condition.

Focusing as much on the artist's personality and his social circle - his brothers, the Impressionist group and the Cercle de la voile de Paris - as on his paintings and drawings, both well-known and little-known, this exhibition catalogue sheds new light on the life and work of one of the greatest painters of the nineteenth century.

Price (VAT incl.) : 45.00 €