Lot 117
  • 117

Camille Pissarro

Estimate
150,000 - 250,000 USD
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Description

  • Camille Pissarro
  • Le Marché
  • Signed C. Pissarro. and dated 1889 (lower left)
  • Watercolor and black crayon on paper
  • 11 1/2 by 9 in.
  • 29.2 by 22.8 cm

Provenance

Galerie Guy Stein, Paris
Mme Brière (acquired by 1946)
Perls Galleries, New York
Mrs. Gertrude Meyer, New York (and sold by the estate: Doyle, New York, September 22, 1982, lot 50)
Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London (acquired at the above sale)
Private Collection, United Kingdom (acquired from the above in 1983 and sold: Woolley & Wallis, Salisbury, June 13, 2012, lot 208)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

London, Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, Nineteenth Century French Drawings, 1983, no. 32
London, Hayward Gallery, Camille Pissarro: Impressionism, Landscape and Rural Labour, 1990, no. 4

Condition

Executed on cream colored paper, not laid down. The sheet is hinged to a mount at two place at top edge on verso. Edges are cut. Colors are bright and fresh. Some very faint foxing, primarily visible in the whitest portion of the sky and the light blue of the central figure's skirt. Sheet undulates slightly. This work is in very good condition.
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Catalogue Note

In the early 1880s, Pissarro began a series of works that shifted away from horizontal landscapes in order to more closely study human form and social interactions. The urban market attracted Pissarro as both a compositional challenge and an opportunity to study the intermingling of various social classes. As exemplified by the present work, Pissarro was as interested in exploring the human figure as he was in commentating on the socio-economic significance of the urban marketplace in late 19th century France: “[it is] a pictorial hymn to the interaction of city and country” (Richard & Caroline Brettell, Painters and Peasants in the Nineteenth Century, Geneva, 1983, p. 133).