Lot 163
  • 163

Camille Pissarro

Estimate
320,000 - 380,000 USD
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Description

  • Camille Pissarro
  • Maisons à Pontoise
  • Stamped with the initials C. P. (lower right)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 22 by 18 1/8 in.
  • 56 by 46 cm

Provenance

Julie Pissarro, Paris (acquired by 1904)
Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro, Paris (acquired from the above by deed of gift in 1921)
Mme Marie Martin (sold: Christie's, London, November 28, 1972, lot 13)
M Mandler, Paris (acquired at the above sale and sold: Palais Galliera, Paris, March 16-17, 1973, lot 62)
Private Collection (acquired at the above sale and sold: Christie's, New York, May 5, 2004, lot 235)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Geneva, Musée Rath, n.d., no. 107
Bordeaux, Galerie des Beaux-Arts, 1874: Naissance de l'Impressionnisme, 1974, no. 115
Rouen, Salon d'Art Contemporain, Portrait d'une Collection, 1991

Literature

Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro & Lionello Venturi, Camille Pissarro, son art - son oeuvre, vol. I, Paris, 1939, no. 462, catalogued p. 146; vol. II, illustrated pl. 94
Joachim Pissarro & Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, Pissarro, Catalogue critique des peintures, vol. II, Paris, 2005, no. 546, illustrated p. 376

Condition

Original canvas; faint stretcher bar lines near top and right edges. Under UV light, there are scattered spots of inpainting near top edge above chimneys, to the left of chimeys and the top left corner. Two nail-head size dots near center of composition to address loss. Otherwise, fine.
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Catalogue Note

Fig. 1 Camille Pissarro, La Côte des Boeufs, Pontoise, 1877, The National Gallery, London