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Lot 35AR

Lucien Pissarro
(British, 1863-1944)
Phippens Cottage, Hewood Green 45.7 x 54.6 cm. (18 x 21 1/2 in.)

28 May 2014, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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Lucien Pissarro (British, 1863-1944)

Phippens Cottage, Hewood Green
signed with monogram, dated '42' (lower left) and inscribed 'Hewood' (on the canvas overlap)
oil on canvas
45.7 x 54.6 cm. (18 x 21 1/2 in.)

Footnotes

Provenance
The Brook, 1949 (the Artist's Studio)
Private Collection, U.K.
Sale; Christie's, London, 4 March 1988, lot 204
Sale; Phillips, London, 7 March 2000, lot 28, where acquired by the present owner
Private European Collection

Exhibited
London, R.B.A. Galleries, The New English Art Club, 23 October-14 November 1942, cat.no.193
London, Royal Academy of Arts, 1943, cat.no.176
London, Anthony D'Offay Gallery

Literature
Anne Thorold, A Catalogue of the Oil Paintings of Lucien Pissarro, Athelney Books, London, 1983, p.230, cat.no.553 (ill.b&w p.231)

Pissarro moved to Hill Cottage, Hewood, Somerset in June 1942 and remained there until his death in 1944. Although he was beginning to feel his age and was troubled by increasing deafness, he continued to paint a little and sent works on exhibition throughout the U.K. and abroad. He kept in touch with his old friends by letter, particularly the painter and curator James Bolivar Manson. The present work is Pissarro's penultimate painting. After the New English show in autumn of 1941 Manson wrote to Pissaro's wife Esther: 'I was delighted with Lucien's new pictures. They are beautiful... no decline of power there! Give congratulations to the Master.'

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