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Lot Essay
The present work was painted at Blackpool in Devon during the spring of 1913. Pissarro lived at The Mill with his daughter Orovida and the painter James Brown. In July the party moved onto Rye and met up with the painter James Bolivar Manson.
The present owner's family purchased this work at the artist's first one-man exhibition in 1913. A year later, J.B. Manson (loc. cit.) described the painting as: 'so completely successful a picture ... that it holds a unique position. This work is a balanced, harmonious, architectural composition; line supports line and plane is consequent upon plane and related to it with a logic not common in Impressionist painting. The picture is suffused in sunlight - a lyrical poem of the morning'.
The present owner's family purchased this work at the artist's first one-man exhibition in 1913. A year later, J.B. Manson (loc. cit.) described the painting as: 'so completely successful a picture ... that it holds a unique position. This work is a balanced, harmonious, architectural composition; line supports line and plane is consequent upon plane and related to it with a logic not common in Impressionist painting. The picture is suffused in sunlight - a lyrical poem of the morning'.