CAMILLE PISSARRO (1830-1903)










Provenance
Ernst Poensgen, Dusseldorf, acquired in Paris, before 1914Adolf Wuster, Munich, by 1954
Private Collection, Switzerland
M. Knoedler & Co., New York, jointly purchased with Galerie Nathan, Zurich, July 17, 1956
Private Collection, New Jersey, acquired August 31, 1959
Literature
Joachim Pissarro and Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, Pissarro, Catalogue critique des peintures, vol. III, Paris, 2005, no. 1314, illus. in color p. 812History
Le Jardin des Tuileries, après-midi, soleil belongs to a series of canvases Camille Pissarro painted from the apartment he rented at 204 rue de Rivoli during his second stay there in 1899 and 1900. Unlike Monet, Pissarro’s approach to serial painting did not involve methodically working several canvases simultaneously to capture a single motif in varying light and atmospheric conditions. Instead, he varied his point of view — sometimes ever so slightly turning his gaze to the right or left working within a wide range of atmospheric conditions, the motifs completely autonomous and self-sufficient. This particular apartment afforded the opportunity to move from one window to another and three distinct views that included this frontal view of Grand Bassin des Tuilere, another of the Pavillon de Flore and the southern wing Denon wing of the Louvre, and lastly to east the Pavillon de Marsan on the left, the Jardin du Carrousel in the center and the Denon wing in the distance. The possibilities clearly excited the septuagenarian. In December 1898 he wrote his son Lucien that, “we got an apartment opposite the Tuileries with a magnificent view on the garden, the Louvre on the left ,the dome of Invalides on the right, the arrow of Sainte-Clotilde behind the bouquet of chestnut trees — it’s absolutely charming.” (Pissarro, Hayward Gallery, London, 1980, page 146)
MoreMARKET INSIGHTS
- The top Pissarro paintings sold at auction vary widely by date range and subject matter, indicating that the foremost considerations for Pissarro collectors are quality and aesthetics.
- Beautiful examples by the artist are the most desirable.
- The top 8 paintings sold at auction, shown here, include cityscapes, landscapes, and figurative paintings, and were created from the 1870s to 1901 (2 years before Pissarro’s death in 1903).
- The record price for a Pissarro painting at auction was set in February 2014 when Le boulevard Montmartre, matinée de printemps (1897) sold for over $32 million USD.
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