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Camille Pissarro

Paysanne

Lot Closed

March 5, 07:38 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Camille Pissarro

1830 - 1903


Paysanne

signed C. Pissarro, dated 1887 and inscribed O.C.P. (B.) II ii a.19 (lower right); inscribed corsage à pois blancs irréguliers fond noir violacé (upper right)

charcoal on paper

12 ⅛ by 10 ¾ in.

30.8 by 27.5 cm.

Executed in 1887.


Dr. Joachim Pissarro can confirm that this work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Raisonné of drawings and watercolors by Camille Pissarro.


Please note that this lot will not be on view during the sale exhibition. It is located at our Long Island City, New York storage facility. If you would like to examine it in person before the sale please contact Nora Feder-Johnson at Nora.FederJohnson@sothebys.com.

Orovida Camille Pissarro Collection, London (the artist's granddaughter)

Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans Collection, North Carolina (likely acquired circa 1970s)

Sarah Trent Lucas Harris Collection, North Carolina (acquired by bequest from the estate of the above in 2012)

Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans Foundation, North Carolina (acquired as a gift from the above to the present owner in 2013)

Bonham's, New York, 13 May 2011, lot 13 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner