Vue d'Eragny

Details

Lucien Pissarro (1863-1944)
Vue d'Eragny
signed and dated 'Lucien Pissarro. 1893.' (lower right), inscribed and dated again 'Vue d'Eragny 1893' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
23½ x 28¾ in. (59.7 x 73 cm.)

Provenance

A gift from the artist to the previous owner.
with Aldridge Brothers Gallery, Worthing, where purchased by the present owner's father in the 1950s.

Literature

A. Thorold, A Catalogue of the Oil Paintings of Lucien Pissarro, London, 1983, p. 62, no. 63.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

Lucien Pissarro moved permanently to England in 1890, and in August 1892 he married Esther in Richmond. They honeymooned in Rouen, and from there they went to Eragny to stay with Camille and Julie, Lucien's parents. It was there, during their stay in 1893, that he painted the present work. Lucien returned to Eragny throughout his life, and it was clearly very important to him - so much so that in 1894 he and Esther founded the Eragny Press, which took its inspiration from William Morris's Kelmscott Press and over 20 years would publish 32 hand-crafted books.

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