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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Bequest of Noah L. Butkin
Museum
A Night Class
c. 1881
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Provenance
PublicProvenance event
Alonzo J. Tinsley. New York, Sotheby's PB 84 sale, 18 May 1977 (lot 341), The Life Drawing Class, si...
Provenance event
Shepherd Gallery, New York. Bought in June 1977 by Mr. and Mrs. Noah L. Butkin, Cleveland. Bequeathe...
Source provenance text
Alonzo J. Tinsley. New York, Sotheby's PB 84 sale, 18 May 1977 (lot 341), The Life Drawing Class, signed, panel, 24œ x 18 in. Shepherd Gallery, New York. Bought in June 1977 by Mr. and Mrs. Noah L. Butkin, Cleveland. Bequeathed to the CMA in 1980.
The Cleveland Museum of Artconfidence 100%
Exhibitions
PublicSource exhibition text
Year in Review: 1980. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 24-July 19, 1981). Light: Art, Technology, and Society in the Industrial Age, 1750-1900. Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA (April 7-July 29, 2001). Breaking the Mold: The Legacy of the Noah L. and Muriel S. Butkin Collection of Nineteenth-Century French Art. Snite Museum, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN (organizer) (September 2-December 2, 2012). Paris, Palais des Champs-Élysées. Salon (1881), no. 2346, Un atelier le soir. Paris, Palais des Champs-Élysées. Exposition Nationale (1883), no. 688, L'Atelier du Soir (Salon de 1881), 60 x 45 cm. CMA. The Artist and the Studio in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (1978), no. 20, 37, 42, 65 (repr.). Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame University, South Bend, IN (8/26/2012 - 11/15/2012): "Breaking the Mold: The Legacy of Noah L. and Muriel S. Butkin Collection of Nineteenth-Century French Art", ex. cat. no. 76, p. 216-217.
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Sourced Overview Evidence
The artist himself described his painting of a night class: "Under smoldering electric lights, a model in historical costume poses for eager, ambitious art students. A few of them might have real talent, some could become commercial artists, but most, unfortunately, have no future in art at all." Although trained in a conservative academic style, Vibert here pokes fun at his own artistic tradition. Vibert was fond of caricaturing the pretentious elements of 19th-century French society. The work was shown at the 1881 Salon exhibition.
The Cleveland Museum of Artconfidence 100%
Evidence state
0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 2 structured provenance events · 3 structured exhibitions.
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