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"title": "Landscape at Saint-Andr\u00e9, Near Marseilles",
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"title": "Year in Review: 1980",
"description": "Year in Review: 1980. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 24-July 19, 1981).",
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"title": "Stories from Storage",
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"description": "According to label on reverse, Provence en Suisse (date and place of exhibition unknown).",
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"description": "Paris, Galerie Alfred Daber. Guigou 1834-1871, deuxi\u00e8me exposition (1939), no. 3, Paysage \u00e0 Saint-Andr\u00e9 pr\u00e8s Marseille. \"Bois 39 x 58.5 cm, sign\u00e9 b. d. [incorrect] peint en 1865. Il existe un tableau identique \u00e0 Marseille de dimensions plus r\u00e9duites.\"",
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"The Cleveland painting is No. 3 in a Guigou exhibition held at Galerie Daber in 1939. The lender/consignor of the painting to Galerie Daber is not specified, and thus far, the painting has not been situated in the collections of any of the lenders listed at the end of the exhibition catalogue.
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"description": "(Arthur Tooth & Sons, London)",
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"description": "Private collection, New York, consigned to Sotheby\u2019s",
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"date": "Until 1979",
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"description": "(Sale, Sotheby's, New York, May 4, 1979, lot 207",
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"he sale catalogue lists the Guigou painting under \"property of a New York private collector.\" The Butkins or an agent buying on their behalf may have been the buyers of the painting, as they were actively purchasing artworks at auction in the late 1970s.
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"description": "Noah L. [1918-1980] and Muriel S. Butkin [1915-2008], Cleveland, OH, bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art as a result of disclaimer by Muriel S. Butkin",
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"date": "Probably 1979-1980",
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"did_you_know": "Guigou was once the drawing master for the children of Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild.",
"description": "This view of a rocky landscape along the Mediterranean coast of southern France reflects the naturalist ambition of capturing exact details and atmospheric effects observed directly from life. Clear, intense light floods over the stony cliffs and the sparse greenery baked in the heat of sun. The artist, l Guigou, studied art in Marseilles and devoted most of his career to painting views of his native Provence. In 1855 he began traveling back and forth between Marseilles and Paris, where he became familiar with the paintings of Gustave Courbet and died of a stroke at age 37.",
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"citation": "Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc. 19th Century European Paintings. May 4, 1979.",
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"citation": "Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc. 19th Century European Paintings. May 4, 1979.",
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"citation": "de Gail, Sylvie Lamort, and Bernard Dorival. Paul Guigou: catalogue raisonne\u0301. Paris: Arhis, 1989.",
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"citation": "Estate of Noah L. Butkin, Bequests to Cleveland Museum of Art as a result of disclaimer by Murel S. Butkin. Estates, Gifts, and Funds, Series 1, Box 2:14. Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \u201cThe Year in Review for 1980.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 68, no. 6 (June 1981): 163\u2013219.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 179; Mentioned: p. 213, no. 94",
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"citation": "Argencourt, Louise d', and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 4. European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974.",
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"biography": "Paul Guigou was born in the Vaucluse, where his family were beekeepers and small-property owners. In 1850 his family settled in Marseilles where he studied four years later with \u00c9mile Loubon (1809-1863), the director of the local \u00c9cole des Beaux-Arts. Guigou painted primarily Proven\u00e7al landscapes en plein air, in line with his teacher Loubon. In 1855 he first visited Paris and from then on would often travel between the capital and Marseilles. Guigou was influenced by the Barbizon painters who exhibited in Marseilles and later by Courbet (q.v.), whose work he saw on a visit to Paris in 1859. That same year he became friends with Monticelli (q.v.) with whom he often painted. Guigou exhibited regularly in the south, but his works met with mixed reviews. In 1862 he finally settled in Paris and, beginning in 1863, participated annually in the Salon. His paintings, however, went generally unnoticed. In order to earn some money, he gave drawing lessons and wrote exhibition reviews. In 1865 he could not afford to return to Marseilles, as he usually did, and made painting excursions along the Seine and Marne. It was not until his friend Th\u00e9odore Duret, the French writer and collector, wrote a review of the Salon of 1870 in L'\u00c9lecteur Libre, that Guigou's talents were acknowledged. He died from a stroke at the age of thirty-seven.",
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