JUNE 23, 2025
Estate Sales : from the collections of Charles Deering, Chicago, IL, | Chicago Institute University Library | The National Art Club | Chubb Insurance
CAMILLE PISSARRO
1831-1903
Estimate
$2,500,000 - $3,500,000
Past auction sale: Christie's NY, 2005
"When the history of Impressionism is rewritten in another hundred years, Pissarro's paintings of 1872 and 1873 will be considered his masterpieces."
--Richard Bretell
DETAILS
LOT 221
Title: Paysage aux Pâtis, Pontoise, la moisson
signed C. Pissarro. and dated 1873 (lower right)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 25 ¾ by 32 in., width (65.2 by 81.2 cm., width)
Estimate $2,500,000 - $3,500,000
PROVENANCE
Jean-Baptiste Faure, Paris (acquired before 1902)
Louise and Maurice Faure, Paris (acquired by descent from the above by 1914)
Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York and Galerie Georges Petit, Paris (acquired from the above on 1 February 1919)
Mrs. W. A. Clark, Washington, D.C. (acquired from the above on 11 November 1929)
Acquavella Galleries, New York (acquired from the heirs of the above in 1967)
Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zurich (acquired from the above in 1968)
Bette and Neison Harris, Chicago (acquired from the above on 6 February 1970)
Private Collection, United States (acquired by descent from the above)
Christie’s, New York, 1 November 2005, lot 8 (consigned by the above)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
LITERATURE
La Collection J.B. Faure, Paris, 1902, no. 70
“Two French Artists,” The New York Times, 16 December 1928, p. 14 (titled La Moisson)
Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro and Lionello Venturi, Camille Pissarro, son art-son oeuvre, vol. I, Paris, 1939, no. 235, p. 112; vol II, pl. 46, no. 235, illustrated (titled Paysage, La Moisson, Pontoise)
John Rewald, Pissarro, Paris, circa 1960, fig. 25, pp. 70-71, illustrated in color (titled The Cote du Jallais near Pontoise)
Marianne Feilchenfeldt, 25 Jahre Feilchenfeldt in Zurich 1948-1973, Zurich, 1973, n.n., illustrated in color (titled Pontoise)
Christopher Lloyd, Camille Pissarro, Geneva, 1981, pp. 52 and 54, illustrated in color and p. 145
Joachim Pissarro, Camille Pissarro, New York, 1993, fig. 124, pp. 115 and 125, illustrated
Thomas W. Gaehtgens and Uwe Fleckner, eds., Prenez garde à la peinture! Kunstkritik in Frankreich 1900–1945, Berlin, 1999
Joachim Pissarro and Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, Pissarro, Catalogue critique des peintures, vol. II, Paris, 2005, no. 304, p. 239, illustrated in color
Gérard Gengembre, Yvan Leclerc and Florence Naugrette, eds., Impressionisme et litérature, Mont-Saint-Aignan, 2012, p. 227
NOTES
As the "Father of Impressionism", Pissarro was instrumental in defining the aims of the movement during the earliest years of the Impressionist Exhibitions. Among his broader oeuvre, Pissarro's 1870's works are considered among the artist's greatest masterpieces.
Pissarro settled in Pontoise in the summer of 1872, the ensuing period marking a turning point for the artist, who until that time had not spent more than a few years in any one place.
"Paysage aux Pâtis, Pontoise, la moisson exhibits a heightened freedom compared to Pissarro's earlier works, and is characterized by increasingly delicate brushwork, softer forms, and airier palette.