{"title":"19th Century Art","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"den-frie-udstilling-fortegnelse-over-kunstvaerkerne-paa-den-frie-udstilling-1893-1893-4085","title":"Fortegnelse Over Kunstvaerkerne Paa Den Frie Udstilling 1893","description":"\u003cbr\u003eKjobenhav [Copenhagen]:   J.Jorgensen \u0026amp; Co.  . 1893.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch4 class=\"vrb_heading\"\u003evan Gogh, Gauguin and the Danish avant-garde\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_desc\"\u003eA catalogue of the first exhibition of paintings by Van Gogh in Denmark. 170x135mm. Text block 155x125mm. Unpaginated. 36pp. In original grey paper wrappers, with title, date and floral decoration on the front cover. Bound into blue half cloth and decorated paper covered boards. Some slight rubbing to the boards but the catalogue itself and its delicate wrappers are in excellent condition. Rare, Worldcat locating only two copies, one in Denmark and the other in the Metropolitan Museum in New York. \u003cbr\u003eThis modest little booklet listing the works of art displayed at Den Frie Udstilling in 1893, captures an important moment in European art: it records the public bringing together of the work of Gauguin and Van Gogh and it also marks a crucial step in the establishment of the reputation of Van Gogh. Den Frie Udstilling (The Free Exhibition) was founded in 1891 as a protest against the narrow and conservative admission policy of the Kunsthal Charlottenborg gallery of the Royal Danish Academy of Art. Taking as its inspiration the Impressionists' Salon des Refusés, Den Frie Udstilling was founded by the painter, printer and designer Johan Rohde, an early champion of Van Gogh whose work he collected. The first exhibition was dominated by Danish artists including Vilhlem Hammershoi, Harald and Agnes Slott-Moller and Rodhe himself. In 1893, Den Frie Udstilling moved to a specially designed wooden pavilion in the centre of Copenhagen and exhibited forty-nine paintings by Paul Gauguin and twenty-eight works by Van Gogh including two of his\u003cem\u003e Sunflowers, a Self-Portrait\u003c\/em\u003e, a study of a crab, a drawing of the garden of the hospital at Arles and the beautiful \u003cem\u003eWhite Orchard\u003c\/em\u003e. Of Gauguin's works, fewer than half date from, or from before, his short, disastrous stay in Copenhagen in 1884-85 when he moved there to join his Danish wife. Clearly the regard in which Gauguin was held by Danish artists survived his difficult Copenhagen period. \u003cbr\u003eVan Gogh and Gauguin were, of course, close friends, living together in Arles for a few months at the end of 1888 before the relationship soured. Immediately after Van Gogh's death in 1890, his brother Theo ensured that exhibitions of Vincent's work were staged as widely as possible. With Theo's death in 1891, it seemed that Van Gogh's reputation might fade. Certainly Gauguin did little to assist, so one wonders what he might have felt at co-staring in this 1893 Copenhagen show. It was only through a handful of exhibitions in the 1890s such as this one at Den Frie Udstilling that Van Gogh's position in the canon became secure.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_note\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_prov\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_biblio\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Den Frie Udstilling","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43105342980287,"sku":"4085","price":2000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/P1026170HEADSHOT.jpg?v=1713454061"},{"product_id":"5282","title":"Exhibition Catalogue","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eParis Georges Petit. 1889.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4 class=\"vrb_heading\"\u003eThe first trade edition in the original wrappers.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_desc\"\u003eFirst trade edition. 8vo. 245x160mm. pp89. In the original wrappers with small repair to head of spine but otherwise in very good condition throughout. This is the original catalogue for the joint exhibition of work by Monet and Rodin held at the Galerie Georges Petit. It consists of an essay on Monet by Octave Mirbeau and one on Rodin by Gustave Geffroy together with the lists of the work by both artists. A very good copy of first trade edition of this rare and important document.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_note\"\u003eGeorge Petit opened his gallery in 1882 and it quickly became the finest private exhibition space in Paris showing major work by many of leading contemporary French and international artists. Rodin and Monet were first exhibited together there in 1886 along with work by Renoir. Petit's Sixth International Exhibition in 1887 showed their work with that of Whistler, Sisley and Pissarro. \u003cbr\u003eAlthough Petit intended that the 1889 Exhibition would continue this multi-artist approach, by February 1889, it was agreed that the show was to feature, in Monet's words to Rodin, \"only you and me\". Monet contributed one hundred and forty five works: the exhibition was crucial for him as he was constantly struggling for public, critical and financial success. We forget how radical and unsettling contemporaries found his work. This exhibition and Mirbeau's catalogue essay did much to establish Monet's reputation. \u003cbr\u003eRodin exhibited only thirty six pieces, the first in the catalogue being the monumental \"Groupe de bourgeois de Calais\". This was set up against a wall of Monet's paintings obscuring them and causing a row between the artists during which Rodin shouted: \" I don't give a damn about Monet\". Despite this, the two subsequently became good friends with huge respect for each other's art. Petit's exhibition was an enormous success and remains a landmark in the history of late nineteenth-century art history.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_prov\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_biblio\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MONET, Claude \u0026 RODIN, A","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63966116217209,"sku":"5282","price":1250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/Galerie_Georges_Petit._Claude_Monet._A_Rodin._Exhibition_Catalogue..jpg?v=1783957055"}],"url":"https:\/\/voewoodrarebooks.com\/collections\/19th-century-art.oembed","provider":"Voewood Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}