CALAME, Alexandre 1810 - 1864 Provenance: his son, NEUE GALERIE in Graz Start Price USD 12,900.00 Current Price USD 12,900.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Sunday, July 13, 2008 End Time Wednesday, July 23, 2008 Location Stockerau See more about 'CALAME, Alexandre 1810 - 1864' Description   ALEXANDRE CALAME 1810 - 1864   "RIVER WITH TREES"   OIL ON CARDBOARD   34 x 22,5 cm 13,5 x 9 in   Provenance: the artist son, Arthur Calame (1843-1919), with a label on the reverse 'Etude d'Alexandre Calame/retrouve a l'inventaire/de la successionde son fils Arthur Calame/ Geneve le 15 avril 1922, sign. 'L. Buscarlet Calame. also a label from an exhibition at the NEUE GALERIE in GRAZ, the state Museum of Styria in Austria.   We fully guarantee for origin of this painting.   Works of Alexandre Calame are well sold at Sothebys and Christies New York and other leading auction companys all over the world.  The last comparable works have been sold from USD 18.000,-- to USD 32.000,--   Alexandre Calame (May 28, 1810 – March 19, 1864), was a Swiss painter. He was born in Arabie, at the time belonging to Corsier-sur-Vevey, today a part of Vevey. He was the son of a skillful marble worker in Vevey, but because his father lost the family fortune, Calame could not concentrate on art, but rather he was forced to work in a bank from the age of 15. When his father fell from a building and then died, it was up to the young Calame to provide for his mother. In his spare time he began to practice drawing small views of Switzerland. In 1829 he met his patron, the banker Diodati, who made it possible for him to study under landscape painter François Diday. After a few months he decided to devote himself fully to art. In 1835 he began exhibiting his Swiss-Alps and forest paintings in Paris and Berlin. He became quite well known, especially in Germany, although Calame was more a drawer than an illustrator. In 1842 he went to Paris and displayed his works Mont Blanc, the Jungfrau, the Brienzersee, the Monte Rosa and Mont Cervin. He went to Italy in 1844 and brought back from Rome and Naples countless paintings, among them one of the ruins of Paestum (in the city museum in Leipzig). He showed that he was capable of understanding Italian nature; but the Alps remained his speciality. The glaciers, emerald-green, white foaming mountain water, which split the trees during the storm, and the whipped clouds, the multi-colored rocks, half masked from fog, in the rays of the gleaming sun, are those things, which he knew to be true to nature. We still call them the Handeckfall from Bernese upper country, in Tirol, Lake Lucerne, the forest tower (in the urban museum of Leipzig), the forest stream (Dresdener gallery) etc. One of his most ingenious works is the representation of the four seasons and times of the day in four landscapes, a spring morning in the south, a summer midday in the Nordic flatlands, an Autumn evening, and a winter night on a mountain. He became popular with these large works, and his popularity grew with smaller pieces and lithographies, namely 18 studies of Lauterbrunnen and Meiringen and the 24 sheets of Alpine passes. These were widespread in France, England, and Germany and are still today used to teach this style of painting. He died in Menton. An exhibition featuring more than thirty of Calame's paintings was held at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts in 2006.   FOR ANY QUESTIONS PLEASE CONTACT US     shipping and packing incl. insurance A       Post                         €  35,-- EU    Post                        €  55,--  Rest of the World  COURIER SERVICE USD  165,--     VISIT US     galerie-metropol.com GALERIE METROPOL Dorotheergasse 6-8 A- 1010  Vienna galerie.metropol@aon.at ++43 676 412 88 88   international bidders are welcome bank wire & paypal accepted  but no credit cards please checks take 3 weeks to be cleared good luck for bidding Place a Bid!