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A Caillebotte for Stockholm
10/4/25 - Acquisition - Stockholm, Nationalmuseum - Among the museum curators who roamed the aisles of Tefaf last March, those from the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm bought a painting by Gustave Caillebotte from the London gallery Connaught Brown.
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- Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894)
Trouville, the Beach and the Villas 1882
Oil on canvas - 65 x 81.5 cm
Stockholm, Nationalmuseum
Photo: Connaught Brown - See the image in its page
Caillebotte spent his summers in Normandy between 1880 and 1884, less attracted by beach socialising than by the regattas he represented and in which he participated, he who was a painter, but also a naval architect, an experienced yachtsman on both the Seine and the English Channel, a member and even vice-president of the Cercle de la Voile de…