2010.13.McD Gustave Caillebotte, Yellow Roses in a Vase | DMA Staging Content Management System

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

A bouquet of yellow roses is set on a marble table against a dark ground. The flowers are shown full-blown, just at the moment when their lush, open petals have begun to drop. The intense drama of the painting results from the contrast between the minimalist elegance of the composition and the thickly painted roses at its center. Yellow Roses in a Vase was painted during Gustave Caillebotte's first serious engagement with the genre of still life. Between 1881 and 1883, he painted more than thirty still lifes, reflecting a renewed interest in the genre among several artists of the impressionist circle, most notably Claude Monet, who shared Caillebotte's Paris studio in 1882. Yellow Roses in a Vase remained with Caillebotte throughout his life and was purchased after his death in 1894 by Edgar Degas, who collected the works of his fellow artists with great acumen, as had Caillebotte himself.

Excerpt from

Heather MacDonald, DMA label copy, 2010

NOTES

Created in 1882

Checked Piction

Waiting for message from Carolyn Bess to publish this as a Content Chunk:

A Question of Light, Music by Jake Heggie, Poetry by Gene Scheer, Dedicated to Margaret McDermott, Commissioned by The Dallas Opera and based on artworks in the permanent collection of the Dallas Museum of Art:

Five days after his father died

While the flowers that filled the house

Were being thrown away

He sat alone and stared

At the one remaining bouquet

Once yellow blooms, with melancholic grace

Were draining, bleeding towards the color

Of bone, clay and cloud

And suddenly, he spoke his secret out loud

"In the war, thirty years ago, I was so scared

When I raised my arms to surrender.

There were two hundred of us.

I was one of only fourteen who survived."

He spoke of his friends, and before he walked away, said:

"I remember all of them...all of them."

On the cold, marble table, several more petals

Had fallen from the stem.

Catalogue essays

McDermott Art Fund

A Conversation with Margaret McDermott, by Dorothy Kosinski (2003)

Still Life

Artist/designers

Caillebotte, Gustave (French, 1848-1894)

Cultures

Geography

Place of origin: Paris (France): TGN: 7008038

Process/materials

Oil on canvas

Historical periods

Individuals

Subject terms

RELATED OBJECTS

PROVENANCE

AUDIO ASSETS

UMO: 13309788 An Enduring Legacy: New Acquisitions at the Dallas Museum of Art

UMO: 263220377 Brettell Lecture: Caillebotte Matters

UMO: 264283028 A Question of Light Tour

VIDEO ASSETS

IMAGE ASSETS

WEB RESOURCES

Khan Academy~Watch this video about Caillebotte's painting Paris Street; Rainy Day to learn more about his style.
NPR~Learn more about Gustave Caillebotte from NPR.

ARCHIVAL RESOURCES

FUN FACTS

TEACHING IDEAS

RULES

Apply to objects where number equals 2010.13.McD

General Description

A bouquet of yellow roses is set on a marble table against a dark ground. The flowers are shown full-blown, just at the moment when their lush, open petals have begun to drop. The intense drama of the painting results from the contrast between the minimalist elegance of the composition and the thickly painted roses at its center. Yellow Roses in a Vase was painted during Gustave Caillebotte's first serious engagement with the genre of still life. Between 1881 and 1883, he painted more than thirty still lifes, reflecting a renewed interest in the genre among several artists of the impressionist circle, most notably Claude Monet, who shared Caillebotte's Paris studio in 1882. Yellow Roses in a Vase remained with Caillebotte throughout his life and was purchased after his death in 1894 by Edgar Degas, who collected the works of his fellow artists with great acumen, as had Caillebotte himself.