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Property from a Private Collection

Camille Pissarro

La Rentrée ou Le Retour à la ferme

Auction Closed

May 16, 09:00 PM GMT

Estimate

350,000 - 550,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection

Camille Pissarro

1831 - 1903


La Rentrée ou Le Retour à la ferme

signed C. Pissarro. and dated 81 (lower right)

gouache, pastel and watercolor on paper laid down on board

9 ⅞ by 12 ¾ in.

25.1 by 32.4 cm.

Executed in 1881.


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

Please note that the title of this work has been updated.

Paul Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired directly from the artist on 26 February 1881)

Private Collection, Buenos Aires (acquired from the above on 23 August 1937)

Private Collection

Galerie Malingue, Paris (acquired by 1990)

Acquired from the above in September 1992 by the present owner

George Lecomte, L'Art impressionniste d'après la collection privée de M. Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1892, p. 80 and 123, illustrated

Ludovico Rodo Pissarro and Lionello Venturi, Camille Pissarro, son art—son oeuvre, vol. I, Paris 1939, no. 188, p. 105; vol. II, no. 188, pl. 38, illustrated

Jean-Jacques Lévêque, Les Années impressionnistes: 1870—1889, Courbevoie, 1990, p. 421, illustrated in color

Paris, 35 Boulevard des Capucines, Catalogue de la 6me exposition de peinture, April - May 1881, no. 85, p. 9

New York, American Art Association and New York, National Academy of Design, Works in Oil and Pastel by Impressionists of Paris, April - June 1886, no. 44, p. 16

Paris, Durand-Ruel, Exposition, May - June 1888, no. 93

Paris, Durand-Ruel, Camille Pissarro, February 1892, no. 54

Paris, Durand-Ruel, Camille Pissarro, April 1904, no. 142

London, Grafton Galleries, Pictures by Boudin, Cézanne, Degas, Manet, Morisot, Pissarro, Renoir, Sisley, Exhibited by Messieurs Durand-Ruel & Sons of Paris, January - February 1905, no. 188, p. 18

Paris, Durand-Ruel, Tableaux par Camille Pissarro, February - March 1928, no. 104

London, Royal Academy of Arts, Exhibition of French Art, 1200—1900, January - March 1932, no. 972, p. 455

Paris, Durand-Ruel, Palais National des Arts, Chefs-d'oeuvre d'art français, June - December 1937, no. 704, p. 321

Paris, Galerie Malingue, Maîtres impressionnistes et modernes, October - December 1990, no. 1, illustrated in color