Lucien Pissarro

Leicester Galleries, London, 1924
The Rt. Hon. Lord. Grimond of Firth
Miss N. Gratton Pring, 1946
Sale, Christie's London, 23rd March 1995, lot 60, where acquired by the present owner

London, Leicester Galleries, Lucien Pissarro, October 1924, cat. no.102;
London, Leicester Galleries, Memorial Exhibition of Paintings and Watercolours by Lucien Pissarro, January 1946, cat. no.39.

Anne Thorold, A Catalogue of the Oil Paintings of Lucien Pissarro, Athelney Books, London, 1983, cat. no.354, p. 164, illustrated (wherein measurements given as 65 by 50cm.).

The canvas is lined. There is a small pin hole surface abrasion along the upper right edge and some old areas of minor paint loss by the centre of the left edge, otherwise in good overall condition. Under ultraviolet light, there appear to be no signs of retouching. Held in a plaster gilt frame.
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Executed in December 1922.