Lucien Pissarro

Dr Ruth Bensusan-Butt, the artist's sister-in-law, 1946

London, New English Art Club, Winter Exhibition, 1909, no.54;
London, Carfax & Co, Third Camden Town Group Show, 1912, no.10;
London, Carfax & Co, Lucien Pissarro, 1913, no.32;
Silver End, Essex, Village Hall, Loan Exhibition of English and French Paintings, 1935, no.61;
Sawston, Cambridgeshire, Village College, Loan Exhbition of British and French Paintings and Drawings, 1936, no.6;
London, Leicester Galleries, Lucien Pissarro, 1963, no.3 (as Coopersale Hall);
New York, Lee Malone Gallery, Paintings by Lucien Pissarro, 1964, illustrated in the catalogue.

James Bolivar Manson, 'Some notes on the Painting of Lucien Pissarro', Studio, November, 1916, pp.56-65;
Wendy Baron, The Camden Town Group, Scolar Press, London, 1979, p.320;
Anne Thorold, A Catalogue of the oil paintings of Lucien Pissarro, Athelney Books, London 1983, no.70, p.66, illustrated.

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According to Anne Thorold (op.cit.,p.66) the Hall has been identified by John Bensusan-Butt as Coopersale Hall, Essex. The hamlets of Coopersale Common and Coopersale Street lie immediately to the east of Epping.