Lucien Pissarro (1863-1944)

The Postesses (Lilac and Laburnum), East Knoyle

Details

Lucien Pissarro (1863-1944)
The Postesses (Lilac and Laburnum), East Knoyle
signed with monogram and dated '1917' (lower right)
oil on canvas
21 x 25 in. (53.4 x 64.8 cm.)
Painted in May 1917

Provenance

James L. Crider, Jr., U.S.A.

Literature

Sketchbook 12, Pissarro Family Archive, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
Sunday Times, 15 February 1920.
A. Thorold, A Catalogue of the Oil Paintings of Lucien Pissarro, Oxford, 1983, no.260, p.131 (illustrated).

Exhibited

London, Goupil Gallery, First Monarro Group Exhibition, February 1920, no.112.
London, Hampstead Art Gallery, Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Lucien Pissarro, October-November 1920, no.11.
Sheffield, Mappin Art Gallery, Group Exhibition, 1922.
Paris, Galerie Marcel Bernheim, Pissarro et ses Fils, January-February 1924, no.29.
London, French Gallery, Group Exhibition, May 1929, no.38.
London, Leicester Galleries, Summer Exhibition, 1933, no.107.
Bradford, Cartwright Memorial Hall, Spring Exhibition, 1934, no.85. London, Leicester Galleries, Lucien Pissarro, February-March 1963, no.13.
New York, David B. Findlay Galleries, Lucien Pissarro, April-May 1966, no.16.

Lot Essay

Pissarro lived at 'Enterprise', East Knoyle in Salisbury between October 1916 and March 1917. He returned to East Knoyle during May and spent the last week of May in Colchester, then remaining around the Shaftesbury area for the rest of the summer months.
(see A. Thorold, op. cit., p.19).

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