Lot 374
  • 374

Camille Pissarro

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Camille Pissarro
  • Jeunes paysannes causant
  • stamped CP  (lower right)
  • pastel and charcoal on paper
  • 58.5 by 42.3cm., 23 by 16⅝in.

Provenance

Ludovic-Rodo Pissaro, Paris (the artist's son)
Rhonnie H. Berlinger
Mr and Mrs Walter Ross, New York (sale: Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 21st October 1964)
Private Collection, United States
Sale: Christie’s, London, 10th February 2005, lot 576
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

London, Wildenstein and Co., Exhibition of Works by Camille Pissarro, 1936, no. 7.
Paris, Galerie de l'Elysée, C. Pissarro: Tableaux, pastels, dessins, 1936, no. 30

Literature

Ludovic Rodo-Pissarro & Lionello Venturi, Camille Pissarro, son art et son œuvre, Paris, 1939, vol. I, no. 1570, p. 296, illustrated vol. II, pl. 301

Condition

Executed on cream laid card, glued to a board along all four edges. All four edges are mount stained, and there is a spot of discolouration towards the upper left edge, not visible when framed. There is a repaired tear to the lower edge towards the left corner, barely visible when framed. This work is in otherwise good condition and the colours are bright and fresh throughout.
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