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Property of a New York Collector

Camille Pissarro

Paysage à Pontoise, temps gris

Auction Closed

March 2, 03:45 PM GMT

Estimate

500,000 - 700,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Camille Pissarro

1830 - 1903


Paysage à Pontoise, temps gris

signed C. Pissarro. and dated 75 (lower left)

oil on canvas

53.6 by 64.5cm., 21⅛ by 25½in.

Framed: 74.2 by 85.1cm., 29¼ by 33⅝in.

Painted in 1875.

Julie Pissarro (by descent from the artist in 1904)
Paul-Émile Pissarro (gifted from the above in 1921 and until at least 1930)
Maurice Lefevre-Foinet, Paris
Gallery Knoedler, New York (acquired from the above on 3rd October 1964)
Private Collection, USA (acquired from the above in March 1966. Sold: Sotheby's, New York, 2nd November 2005, lot 53)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
Ludovic Rodo Pissarro & Lionello Venturi, Camille Pissarro. Son art - son œuvre, Paris, 1939, vol. I, no. 314, catalogued p. 124; vol. II, no. 314, illustrated pl. 64 (titled La Cote des Grouettes)
Richard R. Brettell, Pissarro and Pontoise, The Painter in a Landscape, New Haven, 1990, mentioned p. 191
Ruth Berson, The New Painting, Impressionism 1874-1886, San Francisco, 1996, vol. I, no. IV-188, illustrated p. 138
Joachim Pissarro & Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, Pissarro, Catalogue critique des peintures, Paris, 2005, vol. II, no. 414, illustrated in colour p. 305