Camille Pissarro

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Camille Pissarro

1830-1903

Landscape at Éragny-sur-Epte

1886-1888

Watercolor over graphite on laid paper.

Full sheet: 7 3/16 x 9 1/16 inches (184 x 230 mm); design area: 4 15/16 x 8 3/16 inches (127 x 207 mm)

Thaw Collection.

2017.194

Notes:

Watermark: ARCHES.
In 1884 Pissarro wrote to his son Lucien, then living in London, about his move to Éragny, a suburb northwest of Paris: "The house is wonderful and not too dear; a thousand francs with garden and field. ... But here comes spring, the fields are green, outlines are delicate in the distance." In this sheet, the artist captured that landscape in a quick pencil sketch and added touches of watercolor, juxtaposing gradations of the same color and complementary colors in a manner similar to the pointillist technique developed by Georges Seurat and Paul Signac. -- Exhibition Label, from "Drawn to Greatness: Master Drawings from the Thaw Collection"

Inscription:

Numbered on verso in blue pencil, "223", and below in pencil, "20".

Provenance:

Pissaro stamp, lower left (Lugt S. 613[e]); Paul-Emile Pissaro (Camille's youngest son), Paris; sale, London, Sotheby's, 30 March 1955, lot 7; John Rewald, New York (Lugt S. 1514a); his sale, London, Sotheby's, 7 July 1960, lot 89, repr.; O' Hana Gallery, London; sale, Johannesburg, Sotheby Parke Bernet South Africa, 4 March 1975, lot 3, repr. in color and on front cover; sale, London, sotheby's [British Rail Pension Fund], 4 April 1989, lot 13, repr. in color; Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw, New York.

Associated names:

Pissarro, Paulémile, 1884-1972, former owner.
Rewald, John, 1912-1994, former owner.
Thaw, Eugene Victor, former owner.
Thaw, Clare, former owner.

Bibliography:

The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY, "Drawn to Greatness: Master Drawings from the Thaw Collection", 2017. Exh. cat., no. 296, repr.
Denison, Cara D. et al. The Thaw Collection : Master Drawings and New Acquisitions. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1994, no. 76.

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