Lot 182
  • 182

Camille Pissarro

Estimate
350,000 - 450,000 USD
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Description

  • Camille Pissarro
  • FEMME ET ENFANT SUR UN CHEMIN, HIVER
  • Signed Pissarro (lower right)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 16 3/4 by 24 1/8 in.
  • 42 by 61.3 cm

Provenance

Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Galerie Alfred Daber, Paris
Private Collection, France

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Alfred Daber, Paysages, 1965, no. 28

Condition

Canvas is lined. A thin but stable web of craquelure is visible on the surface, particularly in center of the sky and in the lower left quadrant. Some inpainting along the left, top and bottom edges to address frame abrasion. A few spots of inpainting in the sky. Heavy varnish on the surface. Work is in good condition.
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Catalogue Note

Paul Cézanne and Camille Pissarro setting off to paint en plein air, circa 1873 (photograph, Wildenstein Institute Archives, Paris)