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Gustave Caillebotte

Portrait de Paul Hugot

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June 24, 05:00 PM GMT

Estimate

3,500,000 - 4,500,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Gustave Caillebotte

1848 - 1894


Portrait de Paul Hugot

signed G. Caillebotte and dated 1878 (lower left)

oil on canvas

216 by 96.8 cm. 85 by 38⅛ in.

Executed in 1878.

Paul Hugot (acquired as a gift from the artist) 

Private Collection (acquired by descent from the above until circa 1951) 

Paris, Palais Galliera, 6 December 1966, lot 90

Wildenstein & Co., Inc., New York (acquired from the above sale)

Mr and Mrs Joseph E. Levine, New York (acquired from the above in April 1972)

Sotheby’s, London, 29 November 1994, lot 24 (consigned by the estate of the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner 

Paris, 10 rue des Pyramides, Cinquième Exposition Impressionniste, 1880 (possibly no. 8) 

New York, Wildenstein & Co., Inc., A Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Gustave Caillebotte, 1968, no. 21

Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts and New York, The Brooklyn Museum, Gustave Caillebotte. A Retrospective Exhibition, 1976-77, no. 43, illustrated (with incorrect measurements) 

Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle and The Hague, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Gustave Caillebotte. An Impressionist and Photography, 2012-13, no. 85, illustrated in colour (with incorrect measurements)

Tokyo, Bridgestone Museum of Art, Gustave Caillebotte. Impressionist in Modern Paris, 2013, no. 10, illustrated in colour (with incorrect measurements)

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art and Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, Gustave Caillebotte. The Painter’s Eye, 2015-16, no. 21, illustrated in colour (with incorrect measurements)

Paris, Musée d’Orsay; Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum and Art Institute of Chicago, Caillebotte. Peindre les hommes / Painting Men, 2024-25, no. 103 (Paris); no. 50 (Los Angeles and Chicago), illustrated in colour (with incorrect measurements)

Houston, Museum of Fine Arts (on extended loan 2014–26)

M. de Thémines, "Les Artistes indépendants," La Patrie, Paris, 7 April 1880, p. 2

Edmond Renoir, “Exposition des impressionnistes,” La Presse, Paris, 9 April 1880 

Armand Sylvestre, “Le Monde des Arts,” La Vie Moderne, issue 17, April 1880, p. 262, mentioned (titled Portrait de M.G.C.)

Paul Mantz, “L’Exposition des œuvres des artistes indépendants,” Le Temps, 14 April 1880 

Marie Berhaut, Gustave Caillebotte, 1951, no. 77, p. 30 (with incorrect measurements)

Grace Glueck, “New York Gallery Notes: Circa 1825-2000,” Art in America, September-October 1968, p. 108, illustrated 

Marie Berhaut, Caillebotte. L’impressionniste, Lausanne, 1968, no. 8, p. 19, illustrated in colour (with incorrect measurements)

Marie Berhaut, Caillebotte, sa vie et son œuvre. Catalogue raisonné des peintures et pastels, Paris, 1978, no. 81, p. 52, illustrated in colour and p. 109, illustrated

Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art and Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, The New Painting. Impressionism: 1874-1886, 1986, p. 145 (titled Portrait de M. G. C.)

Kirk Varnedoe, Gustave Caillebotte, New Haven and London, 1987, no. 30, pp. 118-19, illustrated in colour (with incorrect measurements) 

Jean Chardeau, Les dessins de Caillebotte, Paris, 1989, pp. 82-83, illustrated in colour (with incorrect measurements)

Marie Berhaut, Gustave Caillebotte, Catalogue raisonné des peintures et pastels, Paris, 1994, no. 111, p. 115, illustrated (with incorrect dimensions)

Ruth Berson, The New Painting: Impressionism 1874-1886, vol. I, San Francisco, 1996, p. 260; vol. II, p. 159, illustrated (titled Portrait de M. G. C.)

Michel Melot, The Impressionist Print, 1996, p. 276, note 6

Michael Marrinan, Gustave Caillebotte. Painting the Paris of Naturalism, 1872-1887, Los Angeles, 2016, p. 215, fig. 107, illustrated in colour (with incorrect measurements) 

Stéphane Guégan, Caillebotte. Peintre des Extrêmes, Paris, 2021, p. 131, fig. 81, illustrated in colour (titled Portrait de G.C. (Paul Hugot) and with incorrect measurements)

Jérôme Coignard, “Caillebotte - Un géant à hauteur d’homme,” Connaissance des Arts, October 2024, p. 53, illustrated in colour (with incorrect measurements)

Amaury Chardeau, Caillebotte. Painting is a Serious Game, Paris, 2024, p. 126, illustrated in colour