The "Sluice in the Valley of Optevoz", was acquired as a masterpiece by Gustave Courbet (1819 - 1877) for the Neue Pinakothek in Munich in 1910. And yet the painting was not "remodeled" as a Courbet until after the artist's death. This volume tells the gripping history of this painting, whose restoration brought to light astonishing facts.
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The "Sluice in the Valley of Optevoz", was acquired as a masterpiece by Gustave Courbet (1819 - 1877) for the Neue Pinakothek in Munich in 1910. And yet the painting was not "remodeled" as a Courbet until after the artist's death. This volume tells the gripping history of this painting, whose restoration brought to light astonishing facts.
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New. Color-illus. wraps with white lettering. French flaps. 103 full of color and bw illus. Text in German. Catalogue from the exhibition of November 2014 to March 2015 at the Neue Pinkothek, Munich. The exhibition focuses on the recently restored painting "lock is in the valley of Optevoz", which was acquired as a work of Gustave Courbet more than a hundred years ago, and the documentation of his surprising and unusual history. The design and composition but are inextricably linked with the work of Charles-François Daubigny. The conviction of having dealing here with an early landscape Gustave Courbet was already shaken in the 1990s, as in a study of the painting next to the clearly legible signature Courbet a second, visible only in Infrarotreflektogramm signature Daubigny appeared. Daubigny has intensively dealt with the design of the lock in several works, while we do not know of Courbet, whether he has ever visited this area. Recent studies proved then that the heavy, somewhat gloomy character of the landscape mainly resulting from an over-painting that did not belong to the original stock of the image, but was subsequently applied. However, this top layer of overpainting also belonged to the signature Courbet. The restoration was begun in 2011. -from the Neue Pinakothek web site.
