Artist:
Camille Pissarro
Artwork:
Le Boulevard Montmartre, Fin De Journee
Size:
54 x 65 cm
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Creation year:
1897
Marks:
Signed C. Pissarro and dated 97 (lower left)
Category:
Paintings
Provenance:
Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired from the artist on 11th May 1897); Julius Stern, Berlin (acquired from the previous on 21st September 1897. Sold: Paul Cassirer und Hugo Helbing, Berlin, Sammlung Julius Stern, 22nd May 1916, lot 76); Alfred Sommerguth, Berlin (purchased at the previous sale); Gertrud Sommerguth, Berlin (a gift from the previous, Christmas 1928); Galerie Nathan, Zurich (1941); Private Collection, Europe; This lot is offered pursuant to a settlement agreement between the present owner and the heirs of Alfred and Gertrud Sommerguth
Exhibition history:
Basel, Kunsthalle, Impressionisten - Monet, Pissarro, Sisley, 1949, possibly no. 166; Bern, Kunstmuseum, Camille Pissarro, 1957, no. 94 (titled Boulevard Montmartre, soleil couchant); Lausanne, Palais de Beaulieu, Chefs-d'oeuvre des collections suisses: de Manet a Picasso, 1964, no. 54; Paris, Musee de l'Orangerie, Chefs-d'oeuvre des collections suisses de Manet a Picasso, 1967, no. 48