Lot 397
  • 397

Camille Pissarro

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
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Description

  • Camille Pissarro
  • Femme à côté du feu
  • signed C Pissarro  (lower right)
  • black and white chalk on paper
  • 32.5 by 25cm., 12¾ by 9⅞in.

Provenance

Jacob M. Goldschmidt, New York
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1942)
Private Collection (by descent from the above; sale: Christie's, London, 28th June 2001, lot 401)
Simon Capstick Dale Fine Art, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2003

Condition

Executed on light green wove paper, not laid down, taped to to the mount at all four corners, and floating in the mount. The verso is not viewed. The left edge is slightly unevenly cut, and the right and lower edges are deckled. There are two pin holes at the upper left corner. There are possibly two repaired tears on the lower edge, one towards the left and two towards the right. Otherwise this work is in overall very good condition.
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