Karen Wilkin gives a nice review of the current Gustave Caillebotte exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. As Ms. Wilkin’s notes: It was not until the 1950s and 1960s that the dealer Georges Wildenstein began presenting Caillebotte’s canvases as worth consideration, and not until 1976 that a monographic museum show, organized by Kirk Varnedoe, claimed the painter for serious scrutiny. As a result, Caillebotte had an important place in a 1986 exhibition celebrating the centennial of the last Impressionist exhibition organized by the artists themselves. Other significant exhibits followed, most notably, in 1994, a full-scale retrospective, seen at the Grand Palais, Paris; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and the Royal Academy, London.
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