Details
Lucien Pissarro (1863-1944)
An Essex hall
signed with monogram and dated '1893' (lower right)
oil on canvas
24 x 28¾ in. (61 x 73 cm.)
Provenance
Dr Ruth Bensusan-Butt, 1946.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 3 December 2003, lot 3.
Literature
J.B. Manson, 'Some Notes on the Paintings of Lucien Pissarro', Studio, November 1916, pp. 56-65.
W. Baron, The Camden Town Group, London, 1979, p. 320.
A. Thorold, A Catalogue of the Paintings of Lucien Pissarro, London, 1983, p. 66, no. 70, illustrated.
Exhibited
London, New English Arts Club, Winter Exhibition, 1909, no. 54.
London, Carfax & Co., Third Camden Town Group Show, 1912, no. 10.
London, Carfax & Co., Lucien Pissarro, 1913, no. 32.
Essex, Silver End Village Hall, Loan Exhibition of English and French Paintings, 1935, no. 61.
Cambridgeshire, Sawston Village College, Loan Exhibition of British and French Paintings and Drawings, 1936, no. 6.
London, Leicester Galleries, Lucien Pissarro, 1963, no. 3, as 'Coopersale Hall'.
New York, Lee Malone Gallery, Paintings by Lucien Pissarro, 1964, number untraced.
Special notice
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