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Property from the Estate of William J. Levy, Sold to Benefit the Endowed Scholarship at the University of Pennsylvania
Gustave Caillebotte
Portrait de Émile-Jean Fontaine, libraire
Auction Closed
November 14, 11:00 PM GMT
Estimate
700,000 - 1,000,000 USD
Lot Details
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Property from the Estate of William J. Levy, Sold to Benefit the Endowed Scholarship at the University of Pennsylvania
Gustave Caillebotte
1848 - 1894
Portrait de Émile-Jean Fontaine, libraire
signed G Caillebotte and dated 1885 (lower left)
oil on canvas
25⅝ by 32⅛ in.
65.1 by 81.6 cm.
Executed in 1885.
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by the Comité Caillebotte.
Émile-Jean Fontaine, Paris (acquired as a gift from the artist)
Jules Meynial, Paris (acquired before 1921)
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 25 June 1982, lot 9
Josefowitz Collection, Switzerland
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Marie Berhaut, La Vie et l'oeuvre de Gustave Caillebotte, Paris 1951, nos. 156 and 225
Marie Berhaut, Gustave Caillebotte, sa vie et son oeuvre, Catalogue raisonné des peintures et pastels, Paris 1978, no. 291, p. 179, illustrated and no. 296, p. 181, illustrated (titled Portrait d'homme écrivant dans son bureau)
Marie-Josèphe de Balanda, Gustave Caillebotte, la vie, la technique, l’oeuvre peint, Lausanne 1988, pp. 128-29, illustrated (titled Portrait d'homme écrivant dans son bureau)
Karin Sagner, Gustave Caillebotte. Neue Perspektiven des Impressionismus, Munich 2009, no. 21, pp. 96-97, illustrated
Eric Darragon, Caillebotte, Paris 1994, p. 119, illustrated
Marie Berhaut, Gustave Caillebotte, Catalogue raisonné des peintures et pastels, Paris 1994, no. 319, p. 192, illustrated
Michael Marrinan, Gustave Caillebotte, Los Angeles 2016, p. 269, fig. 129, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Gustave Caillebotte - Impressionnist et moderne, p. 150, illustrated
Brussels, Les XX, 1888, no. 4
Paris, Durand-Ruel, Exposition retrospective d’oeuvres de G. Caillebotte, 1894, no. 44
Paris, Salon d'automne, Rétrospective Gustave Caillebotte, 1921, no. 2736
Paris, Grand Palais, Art Institute of Chicago and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gustave Caillebotte: Urban Impressionist, 1994-1995, no. 85, pp. 220-221, illustrated (titled Portrait d'homme écrivant dans son bureau)
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Gustave Caillebotte: The Unknown Impressionist, 1996, no. 28, illustrated (titled Portrait d'homme écrivant dans son bureau)