Camille Pissarro

Etang de Montfoucault

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Camille Pissarro

1830 - 1903

Etang de Montfoucault

indistinctly signed C. Pissarro (lower right)

pastel on paper

26.5 by 37.6 cm. 10¼ by 14⅞ in.

framed: 48.6 by 60 cm. 19⅛ by 23⅝ in.

Executed circa 1874-75.

This work will be included in the forthcoming Pissarro Digital Catalogue Raisonné, currently being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc.

Lucien Pissarro, London (acquired from the artist)

The Leicester Galleries, London

Wildenstein & Co., Inc., New York (acquired in 1949)

Mrs. Alvin J. Walker, Montreal (acquired from the above in 1955)

Sotheby's, New York, 10 May 1989, lot 111

Loudmer Scp., Paris, 19 November 1989, lot 68

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

New York, Wildenstein & Co., Inc., Drawings Through Four Centuries, 1949, no. 76

New York, Wildenstein & Co., Inc., Timeless Master Drawings, 1955, no. 159 (titled Pond at Montfoucault)

Ludovic Rodo Pissarro and Lionello Venturi, Camille Pissarro, Son art - son œuvre, vol. I, Paris, 1939, no. 1527, p. 291; vol. II, no. 1527, pl. 294, illustrated