
Penny Day
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Provenance
With Carfax & Co., London, 1915, where acquired by
Geoffrey Blackwell, O.B.E
Sale; Christie's, London, 4 June 2004, lot 10, where acquired by the present owner
Exhibited
London, Carfax & Co., 2nd Camden Town Group Show, December 1911, cat.no.45
London, Carfax & Co., Lucien Pissarro, May 1913, cat.no.23
London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, 20th Century Art, May-June 1914, cat.no.446
Literature
Wendy Baron, The Camden Town Group, Scolar Press, London, 1979, p.268
Anne Thorold, A Catalogue of the Oil Paintings of Lucien Pissarro, Athelney Books, London, 1983, p.86, cat.no.133
Wendy Baron, Perfect Moderns, A History of the Camden Town Group, Ashgate, Aldershot, 2000, p.197
Pissarro selected the present work, painted at his family home in Chiswick, for inclusion in his first one man exhibition in 1913. It is also one of just twelve works exhibited by the artist with the Camden Town Group.
Geoffrey Blackwell (1884–1943) was the principal collector of paintings by the British impressionist Philip Wilson Steer. Notes of his friend J.B. Manson also list five works by Pissarro in Blackwell's collection, including the Tate Gallery's Ivy Cottage, Coldharbour: Sun and Snow (1916). Additionally he purchased a number of works by members of the New English Art Club, such as Henry Tonks, Augustus John, C.J. Holmes, George Clausen, Ambrose McEvoy and Glyn Philpot.