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CAMILLE PISSARRO(1830-1903)Rouen, bateaux à quai sur la Seine
25 March 2021, 16:00 GMT
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CAMILLE PISSARRO (1830-1903)
Rouen, bateaux à quai sur la Seine
signed and inscribed 'Rouen C. Pissarro' (lower right)
watercolour and crayon on paper
22.7 x 29.3cm (8 15/16 x 11 9/16in).
Executed circa 1896-1898
signed and inscribed 'Rouen C. Pissarro' (lower right)
watercolour and crayon on paper
22.7 x 29.3cm (8 15/16 x 11 9/16in).
Executed circa 1896-1898
Footnotes
Dr. Joachim Pissarro has kindly confirmed that this work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Raisonné of Drawings by Camille Pissarro.
Provenance
JPL Fine Arts, London, no. 289/3041.
Private collection, London (acquired from the above on 14 January 1991).
In the final two decades of his life, Camille Pissarro frequented Rouen to explore the pictorially rich harbour city with its many striking motifs. This work was likely executed on one such trip in either 1896 or 1898. During Pissarro's outings to Rouen he developed a new practice of repeating a given subject; a style that would characterise the artist's urban works going forwards.
Whilst the present work is not a study for a known painting, the scene presented is particularly prominent in a number of his works from this two-year period, with the blue ship and background docks serving as vital motifs.
Camille Pissarro wrote to his son Lucien on 2 October 1896 about his series of paintings from this period: 'In the foreground boats and the water, to the left of the station the working-class district that runs all along the quays up to the iron bridge, the Pont Boieldieu; it's morning with a fine misty sunlight. Oh well that idiot Mourey is an ignoramous to think that this is banal and down to earth, it is as beautiful as Venice, my dear, it has an extraordinary character and it is truly beautiful' (JBHIV, no. 1309).