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1890

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​See also : France  Monet  Vétheuil to Giverny  Cézanne  Rodin  Lautrec  Van Gogh  Landscape   Flowers  Tabletop  Bouquet  Children
1889

SEURAT

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masterpiece
1889-1890 Le Chahut
Musée Kröller-Müller

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Georges Seurat, 1889-90, Le Chahut, Kröller-Müller Museum

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masterpiece
1890 Le Cirque
Musée d'Orsay

The image is shared by Wikimedia.
Georges Seurat 019

1890 Meules by Monet
​​2019 SOLD for $ 110M by Sotheby's

In 1890 Monet is more attached than ever to the beauty of the countryside in the immediate vicinity of his home in Giverny. The humble views of fields are an excuse to study the variations of light and colors made by time and weather. A human presence is no more necessary.

During Spring, he makes two series of respectively two and four paintings on the blooming meadows with poplars in the background.

Two Summer series of five each illustrate oat fields covered with poppies. He shifts in October to the theme of the haystacks.

Champ d'avoine et de coquelicots, oil on canvas 65 x 92 cm, is a view in a warm summer day just before the harvest. An effect of distance is provided by a differentiated palette for two banks of trees, the farther being wrapped in a haze of heat.

It was used as a complement to the Meules with three other poppy fields in the 1891 groundbreaking Meules exhibition at Galerie Durand-Ruel. It had two owners from new, Durand-Ruel and a family that treasured it since 1914. It was sold for $ 14M by Christie's on May 12, 2022, lot 25C.
After the Impression Soleil Levant it took nearly two decades for Monet to jump to a still more decisive step, with the Meules.

He had been very active throughout that period. His paintings of the Gare St Lazare in 1877 constituted a series that displayed the variations in color depending on the intensity of sunlight and on the thickness of smoke from the trains. His solitary travel in Normandy in 1882 for comforting after the death of Camille is very important : Monet demonstrates to himself that lighting is better than topography for expressing a mood.

​Every year the grain stacks will remain alone in the middle of the fields as temporary semaphores that break until the wheat threshing of the spring the monotonous ground devoid of its plants by winter
. They will be the suitable support for Monet to perform his observations of colors through all weather conditions and at all moments of time. 

Monet loves this theme that is typical of country life without the need to add humans or birds. He begins at the end of summer 1890 with five landscapes in which two haystacks are distant from each other.

According to the sequence established by Wildenstein, the next sub-series is composed of two oil paintings on canvas 73 x 93 cm executed during the autumn of 1890. The alignment of two haystacks leads to the tall trees on the horizon, against the light in the last rays of sunset. For the first time the rest of the image is minimized. The predominance of the expression of colors over theme and form opens the way to modern art.

The second of these pictures, W1273, goes even further by managing to avoid the shadows of the two stacks. All that remains is the light that plays with the contours of stacks and trees and reveals the shimmering colors of the field. It was dated 1891 by the artist, certainly by reference to the year of the first public exhibition of the series, in the gallery of Durand-Ruel.

W1273 was sold for $ 110M from a lower estimate of $ 55M by Sotheby's on May 14, 2019, lot 8. Please watch the video shared by the auction house.

An enduring symbol of Impressionism from Claude Monet's iconic Haystacks series will lead an important private collection of 8 Impressionist works on offer in #SothebysImpMod Evening Sale on 14 May in #NYC. Learn more: https://t.co/B4xVl8QWFA pic.twitter.com/SMDorfOowE

— Sotheby's (@Sothebys) March 15, 2019
Landscape
Monet
From Vétheuil to Giverny
France
19th century
Decade 1890-1899

1890 Van GOGH

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​masterpiece
May 1890 L'Eglise d'Auvers
Musée d'Orsay

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Vincent van Gogh - The Church in Auvers-sur-Oise, View from the Chevet - Google Art Project

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June 1890 Portrait du Dr Gachet

1990 SOLD for $ 82.5M by Christie's

Vincent Van Gogh had lost his autonomy but his internment in Saint-Rémy was not a lasting solution. On May 20, 1890 his brother Theo installed him at the Auberge Ravoux in Auvers-sur-Oise, near the house of Doctor Gachet who could help him. Vincent spent the last 70 days of his life there. In his frenzy of creativity, he painted about 80 works during this short period.

Gachet, 62, is a doctor, a psychiatrist and a friend of the artists. The subject of his doctoral thesis had been a study on melancholy. He advised several members of the Impressionist group on their health problems and had attempted to assist the engraver Charles Méryon in the final phase of his internment.

Vincent is surprised by their first meeting, during which he considers that Gachet is crazier than him. However, the doctor is skillful : in two days he gains the confidence of this hypersensitive artist.

For his art, Vincent seeks to express the deepest psychological aspects. He is still and always passionate about the examples of his predecessors, to better overcome them. He admires the expression of madness in the imaginary portrait by Delacroix of the poet Torquato Tasso in the madhouse of Ferrara.

The Portrait of Dr Gachet is an oil on canvas 67 x 56 cm painted in June 1890. Vincent commented on this work in a letter to his sister. He wanted to display the melancholy of his new friend while recognizing that his expression can be considered a grimace. He sums up his qualities in four words : Sad but gentle and yet clear and intelligent.

Gachet has his head resting on his right hand, allowing a diagonal composition of great expressive force. The face is drawn with the hard lines of the best works of Vincent. On the table, two bright yellow books balance the composition. A branch of digitalis, a medicinal herb, symbolizes Gachet's main activity.

The Portrait of Dr Gachet was sold for $ 82.5M by Christie's on May 15, 1990. The image is shared by Wikimedia.
Portrait of Dr. Gachet
Flowers
Van Gogh

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​June 1890 for Dr Gachet
2014 SOLD for $ 62M by Sotheby's

After he entered the asylum at Saint-Rémy de Provence in May 1889, the health of Vincent van Gogh did not improve. But they had to look for a solution. Auvers-sur-Oise is a pretty village frequented by artists. His visit is prepared by his brother Theo in consultation with Dr. Gachet. 

In May 1890 Vincent moved into a room at the local inn in Auvers. He did not have a studio and regularly attended the home of Gachet, a friend of the Impressionists and Cézanne. 

Since he is sick, Vincent is terrorized by the idea of failure and by the risk of a new crisis of dementia. With the energy of despair, he gives a new impetus to his old ambition to become the best painter of all time, the only one capable of a synthesis of all genres. Gachet has a painting by Cézanne showing a bouquet of flowers. Vincent wants to do better. 

Spring brings forth the flowers into the fields. On November 4, 2014, Sotheby's sold for $ 62M from a lower estimate of $ 30M an oil on canvas 66 x 50 cm painted by Vincent on 16 and 17 June 1890, lot 17. Executed in the clear intention to thank Gachet for his help, this artwork shows a vase filled with daisies and poppies. 
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The composition is powerful and the colors are gorgeous, dominated in the center by the fiery red poppies. The groups of flowers shine like some characters within the ultimate tragedy of Vincent.

Please watch the video shared by Sotheby's :
Tabletop
Bouquet

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​June 1890 Jeune Homme au Bleuet
​2021 SOLD for $ 47M by Christie's

From his early expectations, Vincent van Gogh could have been a preacher in the countryside. Beside his highly experimental landscapes and his investigative self portraits, his preferred themes for expressing the authentic life were the peasants, the babies, the children and the flowers. He often took models from his neighbors, including the Roulin family in Arles and the Ravoux daughter in Auvers.

Le Jeune homme au bleuet is an unidentified young peasant boy of whom Vincent painted the portrait in June 1890 in Auvers.

The portrait is uncompromising. The lower class boy has a sun bathed dark skin, a shaggy blond hair, a sad gaze and a forced smile. He holds a cornflower between his lips. The line is much expressive in the style of Vincent's later works.

This oil on canvas 40 x 32 cm was sold for $ 47M from a lower estimate of $ 5M by Christie's on November 11, 2021, lot 21C.
Picture
Children

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​Bouquet after Cézanne
2020 SOLD for $ 16M by Sotheby's

The final phase of Vincent van Gogh's life takes place in Auvers-sur-Oise, from May 20, 1890, on an initiative of Theo who considers profitable his rapprochement with Dr. Gachet, who knew Cézanne.

Vincent is euphoric, until the return of his psychiatric disorders at the end of July. His creativity is at its peak. Benefiting from all his research in Arles and Saint-Rémy, he fulfils his mad dream of being the best painter in the world. He knows that he will never be able to stop time, and paints an average of one canvas per day. He works too fast and can no longer describe all his creativity in his letters to Theo.

Gachet owned two paintings of bouquets made by Cézanne in 1873. One of the bouquets is placed on a round table in a slightly plunging view, an early example of Cézanne's passion for reinterpreting perspectives. A backdrop adjoins the contours of the table.

Vincent painted an oil on canvas inspired by this bouquet at an undetermined date. He replaces the Delft vase with a transparent and shiny glass. The flowers take on the vivid colors from his experiences with Gauguin at the Maison Jaune. The concave background, which occupies the entire width of the image, is iridescent like a reflection of the blue sky and possibly the bouquet.

This oil on canvas 41 x 33 cm was sold for $ 16M by Sotheby's on October 28, 2020, lot 127. Please watch the video shared by the auction house.

#AuctionUpdate: One of Vincent van Gogh’s finest flower paintings, ‘Fleurs dans un verre’ from 1890 sells for $16 million. Executed at the height of his artistic powers, the work is one of the final canvases that Van Gogh painted just days before his untimely death in July 1890. pic.twitter.com/BIBPX0Da7n

— Sotheby's (@Sothebys) October 29, 2020

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masterpiece
July 1890 Champ de Blé aux Corbeaux
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

The image is shared by Wikimedia.
Vincent van Gogh - Wheatfield with crows - Google Art Project

CEZANNE

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​1888-1890 Bouilloire et Fruits
2019 SOLD for $ 59M by Christie's

For Cézanne the work of art is a challenge. The theme is of minor importance since nature can be evoked but is never copied. From the mid-1880s he studies the still life of fruit on a table as a support for his theories of shapes, colors, harmony and even movement.

A still life from that phase was sold for £ 21M by Christie's in 2019. The composition seems naively simple until we perceive the imbalance of the plate. The observer awaits the tilting that will roll the fruit onto the table.

The artist will then increase the complexity. Bouilloire et fruits, oil on canvas 49 x 60 cm painted between 1888 and 1890, offers the dynamic contrast between a heavy pot steadily placed on the table and the fruits in a precarious balance in the folds of the tablecloth.

Cézanne reworked each painting tirelessly, seeking a perfection that existed only in his own imagination. Sometimes he stops before it is finished. The handle and the body of the kettle are disjointed. A lemon or an apple that did not suit the artist left some traces without disappearing completely.

It does not matter:  the variety of forms and the mingling of the colors that constitute the textures are already satisfactory. Cézanne accepts to sell this unfinished work to a collector.

Bouilloire et fruits was sold for £ 18M by Sotheby's on December 7, 1999 and for $ 59M by Christie's on May 13, 2019, lot 18A.

Also from The Collection of S.I Newhouse, Cézanne's 'Bouilloire et fruits' realizes $59,295,000 at auction https://t.co/0XESM9gIJx pic.twitter.com/JX9L5TU85u

— Christie's (@ChristiesInc) May 13, 2019
Paul Cézanne, Les Pommes. 1889-1800, Sotheby's
Cézanne

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​1889-1890 Pommes
2013 SOLD for $ 42M by Sotheby's

Chardin had an innovative interpretation of the still life. He wanted his painting to approach as close as possible to the truth, and brought an extreme care in the texture.

Cézanne plays with apples like an infant with cubes. Fruits are grouped within small uneven piles in which their variety of colors brings an additional appeal. Sometimes a group is interrupted by the frame as if the row of fruit was unlimited.

If we consider that the real subject is the painting itself and not the appealing fruit, Cézanne's apples anticipate abstract art. His still life puzzles the viewer by its original composition, as if it tried to tell a story or to evoke a feeling, like Kandinsky and Miro later. Each individual element is however realistic like an image by Chardin.

The group of apples for sale at Sotheby's on May 7, 2013 is both simple and bold. This oil on canvas 38 x 46 cm painted in 1889-1890 was sold for $ 42M from a lower estimate of $ 25M, lot 7. Please watch the video shared by the auction house. The image is shared by Wikimedia.

Sold for $ 60M at Sotheby's on May 10, 1999, another composition, 60 x 73 cm, painted four years later is more ambitious. The folds of the white tablecloth generate a complex interplay of fruit, the pitcher is the referee and the curtain states that the still lifes of Cézanne are indeed dramas.

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1888-1890 Pommes et Poires
​2021 SOLD for $ 20M by Sotheby's

​Nature morte : Pommes et poires was sold by Sotheby's for $ 8.7M  on November 5, 2003, lot 10 and for $ 20M on May 12, 2021, lot 1006. Please watch the video shared by the auction house.

This oil on canvas 38 x 46 cm is by its composition a twin painting of Les Pommes, a still life of same format and period sold for $ 42M by Sotheby's on May 7, 2013, also with a lower estimate of $ 25M.

Both arrangements are made on the top of the same chest, the same or very similar as the furniture shown in Cézanne's still life in Paris more than ten years earlier. The replacement by pears of a group of apples may result from a desire to vary the colors.

The major difference is that Pommes et Poires occupy a delimited space while in Les Pommes two apples on the right edge call for an unlimited raw of fruit, anticipating the color escapes of Mondrian.

No timeline can be defined within the middle format series of still lifes of the later 1880s. In this time of prevailing experimentation, it is indeed probable that Les Pommes and Pommes et Poires were painted in parallel.

#AuctionUpdate: A rare example of Paul Cézanne’s quintessential still lifes of this caliber remaining in private hands, 'Nature morte: pommes et poires' achieves $20 million. The work last sold at auction at Sotheby’s NY for $8.7 million in November 2003. pic.twitter.com/S5lGB94w7Z

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​1888-1890 Madame Cézanne au Fauteuil Jaune
1997 SOLD for $ 23M by Christie's

Cézanne met Hortense in 1869 when she was a 19 year old part time art school model. She matched the canon of feminine sturdiness of her time. The birth of their son in 1872 had certainly maintained this clandestine couple.

In real life Cézanne focused on his art, with a much limited interest in other people including his partner. When they finally married in 1886, Paul had no longer any feeling for her. His excuse was : "Ma femme n'aime que la Suisse et la limonade". She was for him an available model whom he installed still in an armchair just like he positioned his jars, fruit and tablecloth on his table.

The seminal opus in that series is Madame Cézanne au fauteuil rouge, painted in 1877. She looks bored, not trying to communicate. The arms folded on the lap certainly inspired the portraits in high backed armchairs by Modigliani and Picasso.

Madame Cézanne au fauteuil jaune, oil on canvas 80 x 64 cm, was sold for $ 23M by Christie's on May 12, 1997, lot 115. The image is shared by Wikimedia.

By comparison with three similar paintings, it had been made in the apartment which the artist rented in Paris for his family from 1888 to 1890. They must be considered as color studies. The primary colors of dress, chair and wall contrast with the much elaborated color of the face.
Madame Cézanne dans un fauteuil jaune, par Paul Cézanne

1890 Le Baiser by Rodin
2018 SOLD for £ 12.6M by Christie's

In the Christian morals, adultery is directly leading to the lust section of Hell. Dante had retained the period story of Francesca and her brother in law Paolo, who fell one another in love by sudden pulsion while reading together the book of Lancelot and Guinevere from the Knights of the Round Table. They were killed by Francesca's husband.

Their scheduled position in Rodin's Porte was in the lower left. The original title was Francesca. Both lovers are in full nudity. The artist catches the charming moment when Francesca rushes on Paolo for the first impassioned embrace and kiss. Paolo lets slip the book.

The work was so appealing that Francesca's romance was superseded by the allegory of everlasting love. It was renamed Le Baiser (the Kiss) in 1887. Life size marbles were prepared after 1888. This stand alone sculpture was superseded by Rodin from the Gate with a less blissful pair shortly before his death in 1917.

In 1887, Rodin prepared two plasters for editing bronzes in the taille de la Porte, 87 cm high. The first of them was entrusted to François Rudier and the other to Griffoul et Lorge. In the latter version Paolo's hand is hovering 2 cm over Francesca's thigh after a shrinkage during the drying of the clay mold. Rodin accepted that modification which brought still more emotion.

Griffoul et Lorge executed five bronzes. The première épreuve, cast with a brown patina and dedicated in 1890 to the doctor who was caring Rodin's wife, was sold for £ 12.6M from a lower estimate of £ 5M by Christie's on June 20, 2018, lot 21B. An undated bronze from the same plaster with a similar patina was sold for $ 6.3M by Christie's on November 3, 2009, lot 5. Both examples have the lifted hand.
Rodin

masterpiece
1890 Moi-Même by Rousseau
Narodni Galerie Prague

The image is shared by Wikimedia.
Henri Rousseau - Myself- Portrait – Landscape - Google Art Project

breakthrough
1890 The Night by Hodler
Kunstmuseum Bern

From 1890 Ferdinand Hodler tried new compositions in a quest for a symbolist imagery, in varied themes including nude figures, allegories of death, history. His system consisting of creating a rhythm from parallel horizontal stripes was named Parallelism.

In 1890, The Night is a group of recumbent nudes visited by an allegory of death. It is considered obscene in Geneva in 1891 before being lauded at the Paris Salon by Puvis de Chavannes and Rodin. The image is shared by Wikimedia.
Ferdinand Hodler 005
1891
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