Gustave Caillebotte : Impressionniste Et Moderne

Exhibition at the Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny (Switzerland), 18 June - 21 November, 2021

The art of Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) first is a testimony of the metamorphosis of Parisian art de vivre planned by Baron Haussmann from 1855. After the dark years of the Prussian occupation, the Battle of Sedan followed by Napoleon III's exile, the abandonment of Alsace and Lorraine then the bloody days of the Commune, the artist joined his friends in a new pictorial ideal, Impressionism.

This catalogue of the retrospective devoted to Caillebotte gathers 90 canvases painted between 1870 and 1894: a rare collection revealed to the public thanks to important loans by several European museums and great European private collections. The selection underlines the boldness and pictorial duality of the most secret Parisian Impressionist, who died prematurely at 45, leaving a body of work of less than five hundred canvases.