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Pissarro, Camille
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8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description
- paper and ink
Autograph letter signed ("C. Pissarro"), 3 pages (7 x 4 1/4 in.; 175 x 110 mm), Eragny-sur-Epte par Gisors, 10 June 1885, to his dealer Paul Durand-Ruel, thanking him for 200 francs and requesting a bit more; rust stain from paperclip. Matted, double-glazed, and framed.
Catalogue Note
Pissarro thanks his art dealer, the eminent Paul Durand-Ruel, for a payment of 200 francs, but asks for a bit more as he is having trouble making ends meet. Pissarro writes that he is working steadily at Gisors and that he has found a series of motifs he hopes will please Durand-Ruel. In 1884, Pissarro and his family moved from their home near Pontoise to Eragny on the river Epte. This was to be his principal place of residence until his death in 1903 and an ideal setting for his paintings of rural labor and harvest. ("je travaille toujours à Gisors, & j'ai trouvé une série de motifs que j'espère vous plairont. Je travaille avec ardeur et courage ...")
During the last three decades of the nineteenth century, Durand-Ruel became the best known art dealer and most important commercial advocate of French Impressionism in the world. He succeeded in promoting such artists as Pissarro, Degas, Manet, Monet, Renoir, and Sisley, among others.
During the last three decades of the nineteenth century, Durand-Ruel became the best known art dealer and most important commercial advocate of French Impressionism in the world. He succeeded in promoting such artists as Pissarro, Degas, Manet, Monet, Renoir, and Sisley, among others.