The Suspension Bridge
Artist:
Armand Guillaumin
(French, 1841 - 1927)
Culture: French
Date: ca. 1873
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
12 1/2 x 18 1/4 in. (31.8 x 46.4 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, bequest of Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
Object number: 2005.1.174
Signed: Signed lower left: Guillaumin
Provenance: Paul Ferdinand Gachet (1828-1909), Auvers-sur-Oise, after 1873; by inheritance to his son, Paul Louis Gachet (1873-1962), Auvers-sur-Oise, 1909; sold by Paul Louis Gachet to Wildenstein & Company, Paris and New York, 1954; sold by Wildenstein & Company to private collector, 1955. With Hirschl and Adler Galleries, New York. Sold by French & Company, New York, to Gilbert M. Denman, Jr. (1921-2004), San Antonio, 1959; Gilbert M. Denman, Jr., by bequest to San Antonio Museum of Art, 2005.
Published References
Paul Gachet, 1940, Collection du Dr. Gachet, Vol. 4, Guillaumin, Peinture, pastel, aquarelle, Auvers-sur-Oise: unpublished, no. 25. Paul Ferdinand Gachet and Paul Louis Gachet Papers [717bit4h], The Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc. https://digitalprojects.wpi.art/archive/detail/125667-collection-du-dr-gachet-tome-iv-guillaumin-pe
Georges Serret, and Dominique Fabiani, 1971, Armand Guillaumin, 1841-1927: catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint, Paris: Mayer, no. 21.
Anne Distel and Susan Alyson Stein, 1999. Cézanne to Van Gogh: The Collection of Doctor Gachet, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 235.
Label Text
Bright colors and quickly painted, broken brushstrokes animate this image of a suspension bridge spanning a bay. The lively handling gives the effect of a windy day with clouds scudding across the horizon and rippling currents in the water.
Armand Guillaumin’s life was as colorful as his canvases. He came late to the formal study of art, at forty-two, after painting during every moment he was free from his day job on the French railroad. After a few false starts, he won 100,000 francs in the 1892 lottery (about $537,000 today), which allowed him to make art full time. He participated in six of the eight Impressionist exhibitions, including the very first one. Like his Impressionist colleagues, Guillaumin’s works were often rejected by the official juries of the Paris Salon, the regular state- sponsored exhibition of contemporary art.
(William Keyse Rudolph, 2018)
Armand Guillaumin’s life was as colorful as his canvases. He came late to the formal study of art, at forty-two, after painting during every moment he was free from his day job on the French railroad. After a few false starts, he won 100,000 francs in the 1892 lottery (about $537,000 today), which allowed him to make art full time. He participated in six of the eight Impressionist exhibitions, including the very first one. Like his Impressionist colleagues, Guillaumin’s works were often rejected by the official juries of the Paris Salon, the regular state- sponsored exhibition of contemporary art.
(William Keyse Rudolph, 2018)
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