Camille Pissarro (1830-1903)

Sente et coteaux d'Auvers

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Camille Pissarro (1830-1903)
Pissarro, C.
Sente et coteaux d'Auvers
signed and dated 'C. Pissarro 1882' (lower right)
oil on canvas
24 x 28.7/8 in. (61 x 73.3 cm.)
Painted in 1882
Provenance
Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris (probably before 1891).
Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York (1920).
Mr. and Mrs. Neil A. McConnell, New York (1968).
Literature
L.-R. Pissarro and L. Venturi, Camille Pissarro, son art--son oeuvre, Paris, 1939, vol. I, p. 160, no. 560; vol. II, pl. 115 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Exposition de tableaux de Monet, Pissarro, Renoir et Sisley, April 1899, no. 47 (as Environs de Pontoise).
New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries, Exhibition of paintings by Camille Pissarro, 1830-1903, December 1923, no. 4 (as Environs de Pontoise).
Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Exposition Camille Pissarro, June-September 1956, no. 45.
New York, Acquavella Galleries, Inc., Four Masters of Impressionism, October-November 1968, no. 31 (illustrated in color).

Lot Essay

In the late 1870s and early 1880s, Pissarro based himself in Pontoise. This allowed him to paint the surrounding villages such as Auvers-sur-Oise, six kilometers away, a country retreat for wealthy Parisian businessmen. Auvers also drew other artists during this period, notably Czanne and Gauguin, who worked there alongside Pissarro. Sente et coteaux d'Auvers displays the agitated brushwork typical of Pissarro's work of the period, a technique that had a recognizable influence on the paintings produced by Gauguin in Pontoise, Osny, Auver-sur-Oise and Rouen. Pissarro's response to the landscape is now increasingly more abstract than during the 1870s, the topography of the region being less interesting than the interplay of a wide range of tones within a limited palette.

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