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GUSTAVE COURBET (FRENCH, 1819-1877)

Lot 24
03.12.2024 13:00UTC +00:00
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£ 945 000
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ID 1344000
Lot 24 | GUSTAVE COURBET (FRENCH, 1819-1877)
Estimate value
£ 250 000 – 350 000
GUSTAVE COURBET (FRENCH, 1819-1877)
Le poète ou Le sculpteur
signed and dated 'G. Courbet./1845' (lower left)
oil on canvas
22 1/8 x 16 ½ in. (55.9 x 41.9 cm.)




Provenance

Sold by the artist in 1845 to a Dutch dealer, probably H.J. van Wisselingh.
Coll. V.; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 12 June 1902, lot 10, for 320 francs.
with Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris.
with Galerie Hessel, Paris, by 24 October 1916.
with Galerie Georges Bernheim, Paris, by 16 October 1923.
Dr. Hans Graber (1886-1959), Zurich, by 1935.
with Gallery Knoedler, New York, (inv. A 6415), by 1956.
Lore and Rudolf Heinemann sale; Christie's, New York, 22 May 1997, lot 230.
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner.



Literature

C. Leger, Courbet, Paris, 1929, pp. 33-34.
C. Leger, Courbet et son temps, Paris, 1948, pp. 26-27.
A. Fermingera, Courbet, Geneva, 1971, p. 17.
T.J. Clark, Image of the People: Gustave Courbet and the 1848 Revolution, London, 1973, pp. 39-41, 44, fig. 9, illustrated.
M.T. de Forges, Autoportraits de Courbet, Paris, 1973, pp. 28 and 30, illustrated.
R. Fernier, La Vie et l'Oeuvre de Gustave Courbet, I, Lausanne and Paris, 1977, pp. 36-7, no. 58, illustrated.
A. Callen, Courbet, London, 1980, p. 43, illustrated.
S. Faunce and L. Nochlin, Courbet Reconsidered, exh cat., Brooklyn, 1988, pp. 91-92.
M. Fried, Courbet's Realism, Chicago, 1990, pp. 53-64, 67, illustrated.
P. Ten-Doesschate Chu, Letters of Gustave Courbet, Chicago, 1992, p. 56.
S. Faunce, Gustave Courbet, New York, 1993, pp. 11-12, illustrated.
H. Herding, 'Courbet, (Jean-Désiré-) Gustave', in Dictionary of Art, London, 1996, p. 51.
J. Zutter and P. Ten-Doesschate Chu, Courbet, Artiste et Promoteur de son Oeuvre, Paris, 1998, p. 54, fig. 52, illustrated.



Exhibited

Zurich, Kunsthaus, Gustave Courbet, 15 December 1935- 31 March 1936, no. 12, as 'Le Poète'.
Montclair, Montclair Art Museum, Master Painters, 2 October- 27 October 1957, no. 14.
London, Marlborough Gallery, 19th & 20th Century European Masters, Summer 1958, no. 8, fig. 24.
Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art; Gustave Courbet, 1819 - 1877, 17 December 1959-14 February 1960; this exhibition later travelled to Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 26 February-14 April 1960, no. 6.
New York, Finch College Museum of Art, 19th & 20th Century French Masters, 1 May- 9 June 1962, no. 8.
Bern, Kunstmuseum Bern, Gustave Courbet, 22 September- 18 November 1962, no. 3.
New York, The Trinity School, Nineteenth Century Romantic Painting, 8 February-4 March 1965, no. 8.
Paris, Grand Palais, Gustave Courbet, 30 September- 2 January 1978; this exhibition later travelled to London, The Royal Academy, 18 January- 19 March 1978, no 9.
Paris, Grand Palais, Gustave Courbet, 13 October 2007- 28 January 2008, this exhibition later travelled New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 27 February- 18 May 2008, no. 2.
Artist:Gustave Courbet (1819 - 1877)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Art style:Romanticism
Genre:Portrait
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Auction house category:Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings
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