Faneuse au repos

Details

Camille Pissarro (1831-1903)
Faneuse au repos
signed with the initials and dated 'C.P 90' (lower right); signed and dated 'C.Pissarro 1890' (lower left)
pastel and charcoal on blue paper
9 5/8 x 12 5/8 in. (24.5 x 32 cm.)
Executed in 1890

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 13 November 1996, lot 137.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

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Sale Room Notice

Joachim Pissarro has confirmed the authenticity of this work.

Lot Essay

Christopher Lloyd confirmed the authenticity of this work in 1996.

This drawing is a preparatory study for the seated figure on the right in Pissarro's oil painting Faneuses au repos, 1891 (JP 920; San Antonio, Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum; fig. 1). Another pastel related to the same painting is in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Brettell & Lloyd, no. 240).

(fig. 1) Camille Pissarro, Faneuses au repos, 1891. San Antonio (Texas), Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum.

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