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Opening at the Getty Center, and on view from February 25 to May 25, 2025, is Gustave Caillebotte: Painting Men. Review of the exhibition will follow.
This is the largest display of works by French Impressionist Gustave Caillebotte to be held on the West Coast in the past thirty years. An exhaustive exhibition, it features about 100 paintings and drawings, and highlights Caillebotte’s intent focus on the male subject, from family members and close friends to anonymous workers, sportsmen, and soldiers.
Above picture: Boating Party (detail), about 1877–78, Gustave Caillebotte. Oil on canvas. Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Painting listed “national treasure” by the French Republic, acquired with the exclusive patronage of LVMH, major patron of the Musée d’Orsay, 2022. Photo: Grand Palais RMN (Musée d’Orsay)/Franck Raux.
This painting – Floor Scrapers, 1875, Gustave Caillebotte (French, 1848-1894). Oil on canvas. 40 3/16 x 57 1/16 in (102 x 145 cm). Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Gift of the heirs of Caillebotte through his executor Auguste Renoir, 1894. Photo: Musée d’Orsay. dist Grand Palais RMN / Patrice Schmidt.
Special events hosted by the Getty include – Gustave Caillebotte: Curators in Conversation, on Tuesday February 25, 7:00 p.m. – a free public lecture at the Getty Center featuring the curators of Gustave Caillebotte: Painting Men who will be present to discuss the exhibition and provide some background information.
Tickets to this lecture are free, please reserve here.
Organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, and Musée d’Orsay, Paris, the exhibition is curated by Scott Allan, curator of paintings at the Getty Museum, Gloria Groom, chair of painting and sculpture of Europe and David and Mary Winton Green curator at the Art Institute of Chicago, and Paul Perrin, director of collections and conservation at Musée d’Orsay.
