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Camille Pissarro
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Description
- Camille Pissarro
- VUE D'ERAGNY
- stamped C.P. (lower right)
- oil on canvas
- 54.6 by 65.4cm., 21 1/2 by 25 3/4 in.
Provenance
Paul Kantor Gallery, Beverly Hills
Sale: Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 20th November 1968, lot 45
Private Collection, New York (sale: Sotheby's, New York, 13th November 1997, lot 236)
Private Collection (purchased at the above sale)
Literature
Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro & Lionel Venturi, Camille Pissarro: son art - son œuvre, Paris, 1939, vol. I, no. 927, catalogued p. 209; vol. II, no. 927, illustrated pl. 188
Catalogue Note
The critical and commercial success of Pissarro's first major retrospective which was held at the Galerie Durand-Ruel in Paris in 1892 brought a new confidence and stability to the artist's life. He was now able to buy the house in the small village of Eragny, sixty miles from Paris, which he and his wife had already been renting for a few years. It was, as Julie Pissarro put it, "a fine bourgeois residence".
Henceforth, Eragny became the focal point of Pissarro's art, and as Joachim Pissarro has observed: 'His representations of these fields and gardens consitute the most spectacularly intense pictorial effort to 'cover' a particular given space in his career (J. Pissarro, Camille Pissarro, London, 1993, p. 225).
Henceforth, Eragny became the focal point of Pissarro's art, and as Joachim Pissarro has observed: 'His representations of these fields and gardens consitute the most spectacularly intense pictorial effort to 'cover' a particular given space in his career (J. Pissarro, Camille Pissarro, London, 1993, p. 225).