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The Cindy and Jay Pritzker Collection

Camille Pissarro

Bords de l’Oise à Pontoise

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November 20, 11:43 PM GMT

Estimate

1,200,000 - 1,800,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

The Cindy and Jay Pritzker Collection

Camille Pissarro

(1830 - 1903)


Bords de l’Oise à Pontoise

signed C. Pissarro and dated 1872 (lower left)

oil on canvas

21 ⅝ by 35 ⅞ in.   54.9 by 91.1 cm.

Executed in 1872.

Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired directly from the artist on 12 November 1872)

Ernest Hoschedé, Paris (acquired from the above on 28 April 1873)

Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 13 January 1874, lot 60 (consigned by the above)

Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired through Mr. Hagerman at the above sale)

Don José de Salamanca, Paris 

Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 25-26 January, 1875, lot 17 (consigned by the above)

M.L. Collection

Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 20 March 1880, lot 39 (consigned by the estate of the above)

Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired circa 1884)

Alwin Schmid, Küsnacht (acquired from the above on 21 March 1928)

Irma C. Scharff (née Rosengart), Los Angeles

Wildenstein & Co. Inc., New York (acquired from the above in 1948)

Norton Simon, Los Angeles (acquired from the above on 22 March 1955)

Lucille Ellis Simon, Los Angeles (acquired by descent from the above on 24 July 1970)

Acquired from the above through Lionel Pissarro, Paris in 1997 by the present owner

New York, The Armory of the 69th Infantry, International Exhibition of Modern Art, 1913, no. 499, p. 40 (titled Pontoise)

Detroit Museum of Art, Exhibition of Paintings by French Impressionists, 1915, no. 35 (titled Pontoise)

New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries, Paintings by Camille Pissarro, 1916, no. 2

Boston, Brooks Reed Gallery, Exhibition of Paintings Lent by Durand-Ruel, 1916-17

Waterbury, Mattatuck Historical Society, Exhibition of Paintings Lent by Durand-Ruel, 1919 

The Dallas Art Association, Second Annual Exhibition: American and European Art, 1921, no. 207, illustrated (titled Pontoise)

The Art Gallery of Toronto, Paintings by French Artists, 1922, no. 71, illustrated (titled Pontoise)

Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Tableaux par Camille Pissarro, 1928, no. 5 

Manchester, New Hampshire, The Currier Gallery of Art, Monet and the Beginnings of Impressionism, 1949, no. 16, p. 18; p. 33, illustrated (titled Bord de l’Eau à Pontoise)

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, A Selection from the Mr. and Mrs. Norton Simon Collection Honoring the College Art Association, 1965

Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Art Institute of Chicago and Paris, Grand Palais, A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape, 1984-85, no. 61 (Los Angeles and Chicago); no. 27 (Paris), pp. 14-15, illustrated in color (detail); pp. 179 and 336-37; p. 185, illustrated in color (Los Angeles and Chicago)

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Monet to Matisse: French Art in Southern California Collections, 1991, pp. 2 and 34, illustrated (detail); p. 35; p. 52, illustrated in color

Charles Kunstler, “Camille Pissarro,” Le Figaro, supplément artistique, vol. 5, no. 184, 8 March 1928, p. 325 (titled Vue de Pontoise)

Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro and Lionello Venturi, Camille Pissarro, son art—son oeuvre, Paris, 1939, no. 158; vol. I, p. 101; vol. II, pl. 32, illustrated (titled Bords de l’eau à Pontoise)

Charles Kunstler, Pissarro, villes et campagnes, Lausanne, 1967, p. 20

Merete Bodelsen, “Early Impressionist Sales 1874-94 in the light of some unpublished ‘procès-verbaux’,” The Burlington Magazine, vol. 110, no. 873, June 1968, pp. 332-33 (titled Bords de l’eau à Pontoise)

Christopher Lloyd, ed., Studies on Camille Pissarro, London, 1986, pp. 66 and 71-72 (notes 4 and 6; titled Fabriques et barrage sur l’Oise)

Richard R. Brettell, Pissarro and Pontoise: The Painter in a Landscape, New Haven, 1990, fig. 141, p. 158, illustrated in color; p. 41

Joachim Pissarro, Camille Pissarro, New York, 1993, fig. 103, p. 110, illustrated in color; p. 111 (titled Riverbanks in Pontoise)

Suzanne Muchnic, Odd Man In: Norton Simon and the Pursuit of Culture, Berkeley, 1998, p. 36 (titled Pontoise, Bords de l’Oise)

John House, Impressionism: Paint and Politics, New Haven, 2004, pl. 56, p. 79, illustrated

Joachim Pissarro and Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, Pissarro, Catalogue critique des peintures, Paris, 2005, no. 249, vol. I, pp. 369-72, 374, 392, 408, 414 and 427; vol. II, p. 203, illustrated in color

Richard R. Brettell and Stephen F. Eisenman, Nineteenth-Century Art in the Norton Simon Museum, vol. I, New Haven, 2006, fig. 23, p. 21, illustrated in color (titled Riverbanks in Pontoise)

Sara Campbell, Collector Without Walls: Norton Simon and His Hunt for the Best, New Haven, 2010, no. 8, fig. 4, pp. 19 and 244, illustrated in color; pp. 20, 24, 68 and 221 (titled Banks of the River at Pontoise)