Camille Pissarro

Forêt tropicale

Auction Closed

March 3, 05:01 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Swiss Private Collection

Camille Pissarro

1830 - 1903

Forêt tropicale

signed C Pizarro and dated Paris 1856 (lower left)

oil on canvas

41.2 by 54cm., 16 by 21¼in.

Framed: 64 by 77.5cm., 25¼ by 30½in.

Painted in Paris in 1856.

César Mange de Hauke, Paris & New York

Private Collection, Paris (acquired from the above in 1951)

G. & L. Bollag, Zurich

Private Collection, Switzerland (acquired from the above in 1954)

Thence by descent to the present owner

Joachim Pissarro & Claire Durand Ruel Snollaerts, Pissarro Catalogue critique des peintures, Paris, 2005, vol. II, no. 18, illustrated p. 50