La clairière

Details

Camille Pissarro (1830-1903)
La clairière
signed 'C. Pissarro' (lower right)
pastel on paper
8 7/8 x 11 in. (22.5 x 28 cm.)
Executed circa 1875

Provenance

Gabriel Picard, Paris; sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 25 June 1927, lot 94.
Acquired by the present owner by 1990.

Literature

L.R. Pissarro & L. Venturi, Camille Pissarro, Son art - son œuvre, vol. I, Paris, 1939, no. 1531, p. 291 (illustrated vol. II, pl. 294).

Special notice

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Lot Essay

This work is accompanied by an original Attestation of Inclusion from the Wildenstein Institute, and it will be included in the forthcoming Camille Pissarro Digital Catalogue Raisonné, currently being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc.

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