Camille Pissarro (French, 1830-1903) Paysage

Description:

Camille Pissarro (French, 1830-1903)

Paysage
Initialed "C.P" l.r., identified on an unattributed label and on a label from Collectors Gallery Inc., dated to c. 1865 in a letter from Dr. Joachim Pissarro (see below).
Charcoal on gray laid paper, sheet size 12 3/8 x 18 7/8 in. (31.5 x 48.0 cm),framed.
Condition: Small tear to c.l. edge stabilized with rice paper or similar on the reverse, mat burn, scattered foxing, toning, rippling, 1/4 inch tab of irregularly trimmed paper at l.l. corner, glue residue around the edges of the perimeter of the reverse, sheet hinged to window mat with linen tape or similar at two places on the top edge of the reverse.

Provenance: The estate of Frimi Sagan, Dedham, Massachusetts.

N.B. The drawing was reviewed by Dr. Joachim Pissarro, and it will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Raisonné of Drawings by Camille Pissarro. In a letter that accompanies the lot, Dr. Pissarro suggests that Camille Pissarro executed this drawing in the surroundings of Chennevières, on the banks of the river Marne. The work is closely related to another study of a river landscape with boats in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. The two drawings, which are on gray paper of identical size, might have been from the same sketching tablet. Dr. Pissarro suggests a date of c. 1865 for the drawing, corresponding to Pissarro's second stay in the town of Varenne-Saint-Hilaire near Chennevières. At that time, the artist executed a related oil painting, Banks of the Marne at Chennevières, which is cataloged as no. 103 in the Pissarro & Durand Ruel Catalogue Raisonné and which was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1865.
Estimate $10,000-15,000

Framed dimensions are 20 1/2 x 27 inches.

Tear on center left side measures 3/4 inch (1.9 cm). Hole presents as a small tack hole, located 6 1/2 inches up from the bottom and 6 inches in from the left side of the sheet. There are a few other pinprick-sized holes to u.l. corner that are visible only when a strong light is shown through. Three small round areas of thinning to the paper on the left side, again visible only when a light is shown through. Overall sheet measurements can vary slightly by about 1/8 inch (by width and height) when measured at different places along the sheet.


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