Lucien Pissarro (1863-1944)

Waterhead Creek, Kingswear

Details

Lucien Pissarro (1863-1944)
Waterhead Creek, Kingswear
signed with monogram and dated '1922' (lower left)
oil on canvas
21 x 25½ in. (53.3 x 64.8 cm.)

Literature

Sunday Times, 18 November 1923.
A. Thorold, A Catalogue of the Oil Paintings of Lucien Pissarro, London, 1983, no.345, p.161 (illustrated).

Exhibited

London, New Burlington Galleries, New English Art Club, Summer, 1922, no.27.
London, Leicester Galleries, Lucien Pissarro, October 1922, no.29.
London, French Gallery, 118th Annual Exhibition, 1923, no.203.
London, Leicester Galleries, Memorial Exhibition of Paintings and Watercolours by Lucien Pissarro, January 1946, no.31.

Lot Essay

Pissarro spent April until the end of September 1922 painting at Dartmouth, Devon. The weather was glorious throughout the summer and he finished twenty-one canvases.
(see W.S. Meadmore, Lucien Pissarro, London, 1962, p.181.).

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