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FYI..Caillebotte was not just a collector and a patron who helped out the
Impressionists. He was a painter.
 
 Check out his works,
"A Rainy Day"...."The Man at the Window".."Le Pont de l'Europe"
 in Robert Herbert's "Impressionism-Art,Leisure, & Parisian Society ".
 
 John Walsh
 
 
On Thu, 8 Jun 1995, Virginia Hetrick, in sunny Calif wrote:
 
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> Yes! Yes! Yes!   If you're in LA, GO SEE THIS EXHIBIT!!!!!!!
> It's one of the more terrific things I've seen in a while.
>
> There was a huge story in the LA Times about it earlier this week
> and even my landlady (who does dental stuff) asked me about going
> to see it (whether it is worth the trip downtown). I said absolutely.
>
> If you are going to be in LA sometime this summer, you may also
> want to visit the LACMA where the Gustave Caillebotte collection
> of impressionists will be on exhibit from the latter part of this
> month until early September.  Gus was a collector who bought paintings
> from the impressionists and made it possible for them to manage to
> eat and paint more pictures.  He's also just about the only person
> who did that, so he got some really prime stuff.
>
> vh
>