LOT DETAILS

Materials:

gouache on silk laid down on paper

Size Notes:

(irregular)

Markings:

signed and dated 'C. Pissarro. 1887' (lower right)

Exhibited:

Paris, Boussod, Valadon & Cie. (Theo van Gogh), December 1887. London, Thomas Agnew & Sons, Ltd., Paintings and Drawings by Camille Pissarro, November 1937, no. 34. Zurich, Galerie Aktuaryus, Pissarro, Sisley, Renoir, Guillaumin, 1938, no. 18.

Literature:

F. Fénéon, "Vitrines de marchands de tableaux," La Revue inde´pendante, 15 January 1888, p. 170. L.R. Pissarro and L. Venturi, Camille Pissarro: son art—son œuvre, Paris, 1939, vol. I, p. 306, no. 1640 (illustrated, vol. II, pl. 310; with incorrect dimensions). J. Rewald, Theo van Gogh, Goupil, and the Impressionists, Paris, 1973, pp. 16-17, 61, and 74-75. M.S. Gerstein, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Fans, Ph.D. Diss., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, May 1978, pp. 180-183, no. 48. F. Cachin and B. Welsh-Ovcharov, Van Gogh in Paris, exh. cat., Muse´e d'Orsay, Paris, 1988 (illustrated). M.-J. Pelle´, Les Eventails de Camille Pissarro, Paris, 1990, p. 34 (illustrated, pl. 32). A. Thorold, ed., The Letters of Lucien to Camille Pissarro, 1883-1903, Cambridge, 1993, p. 105.

Provenance:

Boussod, Valadon & Cie. (Theo van Gogh), Paris. (possibly) M. Dupuis (acquired from the above, March 1888). Anon. sale, Maître Chevallier, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 10 June 1891, lot 45. Perrette collection, Paris (acquired at the above sale). Reynalda Yalla. Galerie Katia Granoff, Paris Acquired from the above by the family of the present owner, October 1948.