ID 1064404
Lot 44 | CAMILLE PISSARRO (1830-1903)
Estimate value
$ 3 000 000 – 5 000 000
La barrière du chemin de fer, aux Pâtis près Pontoise
signed and dated twice 'C. Pissarro. 1873 C. Pissarro. 1874' (lower left)
oil on canvas
25 ½ x 32 in. (65 x 81.4 cm.)
Painted in 1873-1874
Provenance
L. Panis, Paris (acquired from the artist, August 1874).
Etienne Baudley, Paris (possibly acquired from the above); sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 13 April 1892, lot 41.
Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., Paris (acquired at the above sale).
Bruno & Paul Cassirer, Berlin (acquired from the above, 12 February 1901).
Dr. Karel Břetislav Palkovský, Prague (by 1939).
Olda Palkovská Kokoschka, Vevey (daughter of the above; circa 1950); sale, Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett, Stuttgart, 4 May 1962, lot 378.
Marlborough Fine Art, Ltd., London (acquired at the above sale).
Mark Horowitz, London (acquired from the above, 1962); sale, Sotheby's, London, 29 April 1964, lot 41.
Wildenstein & Co. Inc., New York (acquired at the above sale).
Acquired from the above by the Phillips family, 3 December 1968.
Literature
Letter from L. Panis to M. Baudry, 8 June 1874.
Letter from P. Cezanne to C. Pissarro, 24 June 1874.
A. Fontainas and L. Vauxcelles, "Camille Pissarro, Sisley, Guillaumin, Lepine, Caillebotte, Vignon, Lebourg" in Histoire générale de l'art français de la révolution à nos jours, 1922, p. 161 (illustrated).
A. Tabarant, "Le cinquantenaire de l'Impressionnisme" in La renaissance de l'art français et des industries de luxe, vol. 7, no. 5, May 1924, p. 245 (illustrated).
J.-C. Holl, "Pissarro" in L'art et les artistes, vol. 22, no. 84, February 1928, p. 148 (illustrated).
J. Rewald, Paul Cezanne: Correspondance, Paris, 1937, p. 120, letter no. XXXI.
L.R. Pissarro and L. Venturi, Camille Pissarro: Son art-son oeuvre, Paris, 1939, vol. I, p. 117, no. 266 (illustrated, vol. II, pl. 53).
G. Jedlicka, Pissarro, Bern, 1950 (illustrated, pl. 15).
T. Natanson, Pissarro, Lausanne, 1950 (illustrated, pl. 15).
C. Kunstler, Pissarro: Villes et campagnes, Lausanne, 1967, p. 27, no. 12 (illustrated in color).
J. Rewald, C. Pissarro, Paris, 1974, p. 57 (illustrated).
C. Lloyd, Camille Pissarro, Geneva, 1981, p. 51 (illustrated, p. 50).
C. Lloyd, ed., Studies on Camille Pissarro, London, 1986, pp. 20, 70 and 73, note 35.
R.R. Brettell, Pissarro and Pontoise: The Painter in a Landscape, New Haven, 1990, pp. 65, 67, 163-164 and 213, note 32 (illustrated in color, p. 70, fig. 65).
J. Pissarro, Camille Pissarro, New York, 1993, pp. 88 and 121 (illustrated in color, p. 89, fig. 90).
J. Pissarro and C. Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, Pissarro: Catalogue critique des peintures, Paris, 2005, vol. II, pp. 241-242, no. 306 (illustrated in color, p. 241).
Exhibited
Berlin, Paul Cassirer, Pontoise, Eragny bei Pontoise, March 1900.
Berlin, Paul Cassirer, VI. Ausstellung, February-March 1907, no. 77.
London, Marlborough Fine Art, Ltd., French Masters, June-July 1962, pp. 17-18, no. 16 (illustrated, p. 17).
New York, Wildenstein & Co. Inc., One Hundred Years of Impressionism: A Tribute to Durand-Ruel, April-May 1970, no. 20 (illustrated).
London, Hayward Gallery; Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais and Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Pissarro, October 1980-August 1981, pp. 100-101, no. 35 (illustrated, p. 100).
Tokyo, Isetan Museum of Art; Fukuoka Art Museum and Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Retrospective Camille Pissarro, March-July 1984, pp. 130-131, no. 20 (illustrated in color).
Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Art Institute of Chicago and Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape, June 1984-April 1985, p. 164, no. 53 (illustrated in color, p. 163).
New York, The Museum of Modern Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Paris, Musée d'Orsay, Cezanne and Pissarro, 1865-1885, June 2005-May 2006, pp. 86 and 181-182, no. 82 (illustrated in color, p. 182).
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Artist: | Camille Pissarro (1830 - 1903) |
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Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
Art style: | Impressionism |
Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
Auction house category: | Paintings |
Artist: | Camille Pissarro (1830 - 1903) |
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Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
Art style: | Impressionism |
Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
Auction house category: | Paintings |
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