Special Exhibition: Impressionist Masterpieces from the E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich (Switzerland)
Period: May 19 (Sat) – July 16 (Mon), 2018
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SISLEY, Alfred - Paintings by Alfred Sisley in the Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich, Switzerland.
Alfred Sisley (1839-1899) was an Impressionist landscape painter who was born and spent most of his life in France, but retained British citizenship. He was the most consistent of the Impressionists in his dedication to painting landscape en plein air (i.e., outdoors). He deviated into figure painting only rarely and, unlike Renoir and Pissarro, found that Impressionism fulfilled his artistic needs.
Sisley was born in Paris to affluent British parents. His father, William Sisley, was in the silk business, and his mother, Felicia Sell, was a cultivated music connoisseur.
In 1857, at the age of 18, Sisley was sent to London to study for a career in business, but he abandoned it after four years and returned to Paris in 1861. From 1862, he studied at the Paris École des Beaux-Arts within the atelier of Swiss artist Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre, where he became acquainted with Frédéric Bazille, Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Together they would paint landscapes en plein air rather than in the studio, in order to capture the transient effects of sunlight realistically. This approach, innovative at the time, resulted in paintings more colourful and more broadly painted than the public was accustomed to seeing. Consequently, Sisley and his friends initially had few opportunities to exhibit or sell their work. Their works were usually rejected by the jury of the most important art exhibition in France, the annual Salon. During the 1860s, though, Sisley was in a better financial position than some of his fellow artists, as he received an allowance from his father.
In 1866, Sisley began a relationship with Eugénie Lesouezec (1834–1898; also known as Marie Lescouezec), a Breton living in Paris. The couple had two children: son Pierre (born 1867) and daughter Jeanne (1869). At the time, Sisley lived not far from Avenue de Clichy and the Café Guerbois, the gathering-place of many Parisian painters.
In 1868, his paintings were accepted at the Salon, but the exhibition did not bring him financial or critical success; nor did subsequent exhibitions.
In 1870, the Franco-Prussian War began; as a result, Sisley's father's business failed, and the painter's sole means of support became the sale of his works. For the remainder of his life he would live in poverty, as his paintings did not rise significantly in monetary value until after his death. Occasionally, however, Sisley would be backed by patrons, and this allowed him, among other things, to make a few brief trips to Britain.
The first of these occurred in 1874, after the first independent Impressionist exhibition. The result of a few months spent near London was a series of nearly twenty paintings of the Upper Thames near Molesey, which was later described by art historian Kenneth Clark as a perfect moment of Impressionism.
Until 1880, Sisley lived and worked in the country west of Paris; then he and his family moved to a small village near Moret-sur-Loing, close to the forest of Fontainebleau, where the painters of the Barbizon school had worked earlier in the century. Here, as art historian Anne Poulet has said, the gentle landscapes with their constantly changing atmosphere were perfectly attuned to his talents. Unlike Monet, he never sought the drama of the rampaging ocean or the brilliantly colored scenery of the Côte d'Azur.
In 1881, Sisley made a second brief voyage to Great Britain.
He died on 29 January 1899 of throat cancer in Moret-sur-Loing at the age of 59, a few months after the death of his wife. His body was buried at Moret-sur-Loing Cemetery.
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Paul Cezanne (1839 - 1906) – vanitas (1866 - 1903)
Paul Cezanne (1839 - 1906) – vanitas (1866 - 1903)
Paul Cezanne (19 January 1839 - 22 October 1906) – vanitas (1866 - 1903)
00.- Self-Portrait with Palette, c.1890, E.G. Bührle Foundation, Zürich, Switzerland.
01.- Paul Cezanne signature.
02.- Still life with skull, candle and book, 1866, Private Collection.
03.- Still Life Skull and Waterjug, c.1870, Private Collection
04.- Still Life with Skull, 1898, Barnes Foundation, Lower Merion, PA, US
05.- Pyramid of skulls, c.1900, Grand Palais, Paris, France
06.- The Three Skulls, c.1900, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI, US
07.- Three Skulls on a Patterned Carpet, c.1900, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Solothurn, Switzerland
08.- Still life with three skulls, c.1903, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, US
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