Cezanne to Van Gogh : The Collection of Doctor Gacher

by Anne Distel; Susan Alyson Stein

• ISBN13: 9780810965386
• ISBN10: 0810965380
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-06-01
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Inc

Summary

Dr. Paul-Ferdinand Gachet, a contemporary of Van Gogh, Cezanne, and Pissarro, befriended many artists and assembled their works. This book presents the entire Gachet collection. An accompanying exhibition will take place May 17-Aug. 15, 1999, at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. 300 illustrations, 70 in full color.

Table of Contents

Curators and Organizing Committee	vi
Lenders to the Exhibition	vii
Directors' Foreword	viii
Introduction	x
Acknowledgments	xii
GACHET, FATHER AND SON	3	(289)
Anne Distel
Portraits of Dr. Gachet and His Children	26	(8)
CATALOGUE: THE GACHET DONATION
Anne Distel
The Role of the Research Laboratory of the Musees de France	34	(2)
Jean-Pierre Mohen
Cezanne and Van Gogh	36	(78)
A Modern Olympia: A Technical Comparison of Cezanne's Painting and Its Copy by Paul van Ryssel (Dr. Gachet)	39	(26)
Daniele Giraudy
The Use of X-Radiography to Study Paintings by Cezanne and Van Gogh in the Gachet Collection	65	(39)
Elisabeth Ravaud
The Discoloration of Pinks and Purples in Van Gogh's Paintings from Auvers	104	(10)
Jean-Paul Rioux
Impressionists and Contemporaries	114	(26)
Amateurs in Auvers	140	(19)
THE GREATER GACHET COLLECTION
The Gachet Donation in Context: The Known and Little-Known Collections	159	(18)
Susan Alyson Stein
Paul Gachet Characterizes His Father's Collection	177	(2)
Checklist of Artists and Works in the Gachet Collection	179	(6)
Julie Steiner
SUMMARY CATALOGUE of Works by Major Artists	185	(58)
Susan Alyson Stein
Illustrated Checklist of Copies after Works by Cezanne, Van Gogh, and Other Nineteenth-Century Artists	243	(16)
Susan Alyson Stein
DOCUMENTS
Excerpts from the Correspondence, 1889-91: Vincent van Gogh, Theo, Dr. Gachet, and Others	259	(11)
Paul Gachet Fils Remembered	270	(3)
Michael Pakenham
Chronology	273	(16)
Paul Gachet
Inventory Taken After the Death of Mme Gachet	289	(3)
Note on Works Exhibited	292	(1)
Selected Bibliography	293	(10)
Index of Owners	303	(3)
General Index	306	(8)
Photograph Credits	314