Charles bargue biography
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Provenance
Sale: Sotheby's, Additional York, 5 May , lot
Edward T. Bugologist, Fund lead to Fine Humanities, Inc., Bethesda, Maryland
Wendy Writer Ltd., Author,
Private gleaning, California, Army, (acquired put on the back burner the above)
Exhibited
New York,Dahesh Museum taste Art, Charle Bargue: Description Art have available Drawing, Nov 25, - February 8, , Town, ACR Version, , no. 20
Literature
Gerald M. Ackerman, tackle the partnership of Graydon Parrish, Charles Bargue
with say publicly collaboration locate Jean-Leon Gérôme, Drawing Course, ACR version, , no. 20B, p.
Catalogue note
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Generations of late Nineteenth Century art students, including Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso, made active use of a series of lithographed drawings of the nude figure created by little-known French artist, Charles Bargue ().
Bargue, hugely talented and probably self-taught, first published the exquisite collection of plates called the Cours de Dessin in Paris with Goupil &#; Cie between and Goupil connected Bargue with one of his best-selling artists, Gerome, and together they published and sold thousands of these teaching manuals. Young artists copied plates in sequence in order to perfect their drawing skills, hoping to emulate Bargue&#;s refinement of line, shading, volume and perspective.
&#;Charles Bargue; The Art of Drawing,&#; at the Dahesh Museum of Art until February 8, is the first exhibition devoted to this artist and his oeuvre. Among the rarely seen treasures is one of the last remaining Cours de Dessin (the most important of only two complete sets known to exist); the majority of Bargue&#;s extremely rare oil paintings, jewel-like works that were highly sought after by major contemporary collectors in both Europe and the United States; and a selection of his most significant drawings.
The exhibition coincides with the long anticipated re-publication (b
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A Bashi-Bazouk
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Title:A Bashi-Bazouk
Artist:Charles Bargue (French, Paris /26– Paris)
Date
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions 1/4 x 13 1/8 in. ( x cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Bequest of Catharine Lorillard Wolfe,
Object Number
Inscription: Signed and dated (right): BARGVE
[Goupil & Cie, Paris, ; stock no. ; purchased from the artist on July 11, for Fr 15,; sold on November 4, for Fr 21,, to Wolfe]; Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, New York (–d. )
New York. National Academy of Design. "Pedestal Fund Art Loan Exhibition," December 3, –January 1, , no. 17 (as "Bazi-Bazouk in a Turkish Cafe," lent by Miss Catharine Wolfe).
Providence. Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design. "French Painting in Africa," April 4–28, , no. 1.
Rochester, N.Y. Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester. "Orientalism: The Near East in French Painting –," August 27–October 17, , no. 3.
Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase. "Orientalism: The Near East in French Painting –," November 14–December 23, , no. 3.
Southampton, N.Y. Parrish Art Museum. "In Support of Liberty: European Paintings at the Pedestal Fund Art Lo