拍品專文
The Wildenstein Institute has confirmed the authenticity of this painting.
GABRIELLE OPPENHEIM-ERRERA
Gabrielle Oppenheim-Errera's life spanned more than a century and during the course of 105 years was filled with beautiful art and antiquities, a love for language and the company of the world's greatest minds.
Born in Brussels in 1892, the daughter of a law professor at the University of Brussels and the mayor of one of the city's independent suburbs, Gabrielle Errera moved to Frankfurt in 1912 where she married Dr. Paul Oppenheim, a philosopher-scientist. There, in the period preceding World War I, Mrs. Oppenheim-Errera's keen eye and love of art gave birth to a considerable and highly personal collection: Corot's Le ruisseau de Plaisir-Fontaine caught her attention from the dark corner of a Frankfurt antique shop as she passed by on the street; Monet's Waterloo Bridge was purchased by her husband to celebrate the birth of her son; with the exception of Utrillo's Cabaret du Lapin-Agile, the entire collection was acquired in the twenty years between the two World Wars.
In 1933, the year of the Nazi takeover of Germany, Mrs. Oppenheim-Errera and her husband fled with their collection to Brussels, where escape from the Nazis was brief. In 1939, as the Nazi invasion loomed, the Oppenheims placed the best of their collection in bank vaults under the names of trusted friends; they left on their walls lesser works to be seized by the Nazis. Hopeful that the looters would accept what remained as the whole of their collection, thereby dissuading further investigation and the possible loss of their greatest treasures, the Oppenheims moved to Princeton, New Jersey, where they were reunited with their friend Albert Einstein. The ruse proved successful and, following the war, the collection was recovered from Belgium and installed in the Oppenheims' new home at 57 Princeton Avenue.
In the twenty-five years that followed, Mrs. Oppenheim-Errera volunteered as a speech therapist in the Princeton public schools while entertaining a host of notables in her home. Mr. and Mrs. Oppenheim's Saturday lunches became legendary, and were attended by many preeminent intellectuals from the international academic community, especially physicists and philosophers. Included in the Oppenheims' circle were Bertrand Russell, Enrico Fermi, Neals Bohr, John von Neumann, Carl Hempel, Paul Tillich, and Albert Einstein, who would later be the best man at the Oppenheims' son's wedding.
The collection remained at the Oppenheim home until 1991; then it was loaned to the Art Museum at Princeton University, where it remained until shortly after Mrs. Oppenheim-Errera's death in August 1997. During her final years, Mrs. Oppenheim-Errera remained active and interested in the world around her, claiming never to have felt tired until she reached the age of 104. Even toward the end, she had philosophy students come to the house daily to converse in French and Italian and to read The New York Times aloud, cover-to-cover.
Property from the Estate of Gabrielle Oppenheim-Errera
Camille Pissarro (1830-1903)
Berger avec moutons
細節
Camille Pissarro (1830-1903)
Berger avec moutons
signed and dated bottom right 'C.Pissarro.88.'
détrempe on linen laid down on canvas
8¾ x 10 5/8 in. (22.2 x 27 cm.)
Painted in 1888
Berger avec moutons
signed and dated bottom right 'C.Pissarro.88.'
détrempe on linen laid down on canvas
8¾ x 10 5/8 in. (22.2 x 27 cm.)
Painted in 1888
來源
Georg Liebermann, Berlin
Acquired by the late owner before 1939
Acquired by the late owner before 1939
展覽
Berlin, Galerie Paul Cassirer, Ein Jahrhundert französischer Zeichnung, Dec., 1929-Jan., 1930, p. 79, no. 88
Princeton, University Art Museum, April, 1989-Sept., 1997 (on loan)
Princeton, University Art Museum, April, 1989-Sept., 1997 (on loan)
拍場告示
A photo-certificate from the Wildenstein Institute dated Paris, October 15, 1997 accompanies this painting, which will be included in their forthcoming Pissarro catalogue raisonné.