Lot 65
Lot 65
Artists – Impressionists

Autograph letters signed by Caillebotte, Boudin, Jongkind and Daubigny, 1863-1896, and a series by Camille Mauclair

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Artists – Impressionists

Autograph letters signed by Caillebotte, Boudin, Jongkind and Daubigny, 1863-1896, and a series by Camille Mauclair

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Artists – Impressionists
Autograph letters signed by Caillebotte, Boudin, Jongkind and Daubigny, 1863-1896, and a series by Camille Mauclair
Comprising autograph letters by: Gustave Caillebotte (to Claude Monet), Eugène Boudin, Johan Barthold Jongkind (2) and Charles-François Daubigny (2); and Camille Mauclair: 26 letters, 36 postcards, nine memoranda and 11 visiting cards, with four related letters. Provenance: Sotheby's London, 5 & 6 May 1988, lot 156.

Caillbotte to Monet, discussing the organisation of the Impressionist Exhibition of 1882; with letters by his fellow painters including a collection by the writer and critic Camille Mauclair (1872-1945).

Caillebotte discusses with Monet in an undated [c.1882] letter the organisation of an exhibition with Gauguin, Pissarro and Renoir: 'Il sera bien difficile peut être impossible d’arriver jamais à ce que nous rêvons – j’avais donc cru vous proposer le compromis Gauguin – Personnellement je n’y tiens pas vous le savez mais comment sortir de tout cela – Pissarro qui a le loyer sur le dos pour un quart, me pressait beaucoup – J’avais vu Gauguin qui raisonnait absolument comme nous deux. Bref peut être aurait on pu faire quelque chose non de parfait mais de pas trop mal – / Pour le moment il est trop tard. Ni Renoir ni vous ne pouvez être là … Tachons donc d’arriver à quelque chose pour l’année prochaine mais sachons six mois d’avenir sur qui nous pourrons compter' (It will be very difficult, perhaps impossible, to ever achieve what we are dreaming of – so I thought I would offer you the Gauguin compromise – Personally I'm not attached to it, as you know, but how can we get out of all this – Pissarro who is responsible for a quarter of the rent put a lot of pressure on me – I had seen Gauguin who had absolutely the same point of view as the two of us. In short, maybe we could have done something not perfect but not too bad – / For the moment it’s too late. Neither Renoir nor you can be there ... Let us therefore try to manage something for next year but let us figure out six months in advance who we will be able to count on). The exhibition in question is presumably the triumphant seventh Impressionist exhibition of 1882. Berhaut Marie, Gustave Caillebotte: catalogue raisonné des peintures et pastels (Paris: Wildenstein Institute, 1994), letter 29, p. 276.

Eugène Boudin writes to Louis Braquaval (18 October 1893) complaining of the poor weather, 'au Havre je n’ai pas même pu ouvrir ma boîte'; only an improvement in the last few days has enabled him to paint some rushed 'études'; he strongly recommends Braquaval pursue an approach of making multiple studies from nature, but only if he is adding new effects. Jongkind writes to ask for the thoughts of his correspondent (apparently his agent or dealer) on some tableaux, having forgotten to ask when his correspondent visited the day before. He requests that his correspondent do what he can to find a place for the works in question (4 July 1863). In another letter he sends an invoice to a client who has purchased for 5,000 francs tableaux et aquarelles 'peints et dessinés par le soussigné' (21 April 1883). Daubigny writes in support of the artist Adolphe Marais (1856-1940): 'I have seen Mr Adolphe Marais' tableaux and studies and certify that if this young artist is supported by his home town, he will be a most distinguished painter in the future' (Paris, 15 April 1896). Mauclair's letters cover a range of topics, primarily his work, his day-to-day life, his travels around France, and his reading; many are to his friend Georges Maurevert.
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