CAMILLE PISSARRO | Effet de pluie au Valhermeil, Auvers-sur-Oise

Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired directly from the artist in April 1888)
Mme de La Chapelle, Paris (acquired from the above in April 1937)
Dr Alfred Gold, Paris (acquired circa May 1937)
Sam Salz, New York (acquired circa September 1937)
Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 30th March 1938, lot 26
Galerie Max Kaganovitch, Paris (purchased at the above sale)
George Bigar, New York (acquired circa 1950)
David B. Findlay, New York
Douglass Boshkoff, Bloomington, Indiana (acquired from the above in 1965)
Peter Findlay Gallery, New York (acquired from the above circa 1993)
Simon Capstick-Dale, New York (acquired from the above)
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1998; sale: Sotheby's, London, 25th June 2009, lot 226)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Paris, Galerie Max Kaganovitch, Œuvres choisies des XIXe et XXe siècles, 1938, no. 31

Ludovic Rodo-Pissarro & Lionello Pissarro, Camille Pissarro, son art - son œuvre, Paris, 1939, vol. I, no. 533, p. 156; vol. II, no. 533, illustrated pl. 109
Joachim Pissarro & Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, Pissarro, Catalogue critique des peintures, Paris, 2005, vol. II, no. 668, illustrated in colour p. 447

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'Pissarro was particularly fascinated by the transitions between the seasons and the times of day, and his palette included endless pastel shades reminiscent of the iridescent hues of a piece of mother-of-pearl’ (Christoph Becker, “Camille Pissarro, Impressionist Artist”, Camille Pissarro, Stuttgart, 1999, p.110).