Lot 227
  • 227

Camille Pissarro

Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 GBP
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Description

  • Camille Pissarro
  • Coin du jardin à Eragny
  • bears the signature C. Pissarro  (lower left)
  • oil on canvas
  • 38.5 by 46.5cm., 15 1/4 by 18 1/4 in.

Provenance

Georges Manzana Pissarro (the artist's son, inherited in 1904)
Private Collection
Sale: Drouot Montaigne, Paris, 24th November 1988, lot 40
Sale: Habsburg-Feldman, New York, 8th May 1989, lot 6
Private Collection (purchased at the above sale)
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1993

Literature

Joachim Pissarro & Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, Pissarro, Catalogue critique des peintures, Paris, 2005, vol. III, no. 1268, illustrated in colour p. 788

Condition

The canvas is not lined. UV examination reveals a spot of retouching to the letter 'C' of the signature. There are some fine lines of craquelure to the white pigment in the sky and a few fine lines of craquelure to areas of thickly applied paint. Otherwise this work is in overall good condition.
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