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Property from a Prominent Private Collection

Camille Pissarro

Effet de neige à Montfoucault

Session begins in

November 19, 04:00 PM GMT

Estimate

700,000 - 1,000,000 USD

Bid

600,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Prominent Private Collection

Camille Pissarro

1830 - 1903


Effet de neige à Montfoucault

signed C. Pissarro (lower right)

oil on canvas

18 ⅛ by 21 ⅞ in.

46 by 55.5 cm.

Executed circa 1874.

Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired directly from the artist on 24 February 1892)

Anne-Marie Lefébure, Paris (née Durand-Ruel) (acquired from the above in 1942)

Durand-Ruel, Paris & New York (acquired from the above on 16 January 1962)

Sam Salz, New York (acquired from the above on 29 January 1963)

William S. Beinecke, New York (acquired from the above in 1966)

Private Collection (acquired by descent from the above)

Sotheby's, London, 19 June 2013, lot 40 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Ernest-Marie d’Hervilly, “Les on-dit,” Le Rappel, no. 7999, 3 February 1892, p. 2

Charles Saunier, “L’Art nouveau. I, Camille Pissarro,” La Revue indépendante, vol. XXIII, nos. 66-68, 1892, p. 33

“The Impressionists,” Witness, 7 April 1892

Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro and Lionello Venturi, Camille Pissarro, son art—son oeuvre, vol. I, Paris, 1939, no. 281, p. 119; vol. II, no. 281, pl. 56, illustrated

Janine Bailly-Herzberg, ed., Correspondance de Camille Pissarro, vol. III, Paris, 1988, letter no. 745, p. 189

Joachim Pissarro and Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, Pissarro, Critical Catalogue of Paintings, vol. II, Paris, 2005, no. 385, p. 290, illustrated

Paris, Durand-Ruel, Exposition Camille Pissarro, 1892, no. 5, p. 22

Montreal, F. Scott & Sons, Paintings Lent by Durand-Ruel, 1892

The Hague, Haagsche Kunstkring, Tentoonstelling van schildeijen en beeldhouwwerken van werken leden der 1ste afdeeling en van werken van Claude Monet, Renoir, Sisley en C. Pissarro, 1893, no. 53

Berlin, Galerie Paul Cassirer, Pissarro, 1904, no. 10

Paris, Durand-Ruel, C. Pissarro (1830-1903), 1962, no. 12