Le Boulevard de Montmartre, Matinée de Printemps

{{Short description|Painting by Camille Pissarro}}

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| title = Le Boulevard de Montmartre, Matinée de Printemps

| artist = Camille Pissarro

| catalogue = JP and CD-RS 1171

| year = 1897

| medium = oil on canvas

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| museum = Private Collection

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Le Boulevard de Montmartre, Matinée de Printemps is a painting of Paris' Boulevard Montmartre by Camille Pissarro.

On 5 February 2014 it was auctioned at Sotheby's, London, for £19,682,500,Hammer price with buyer's premium double its pre-sale estimate.{{cite web|title=5 February 2014 - Lot 43|url=http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2014/impressionist-modern-art-evening-sale-l14002/lot.43.html|publisher=Sotheby's}}{{cite news|last=Adam |first=Georgina |title=The Art Market: Sotheby's Impressionist and modern art auction scores £163.5m |url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/da0c310a-8f32-11e3-be85-00144feab7de.html |newspaper=The Financial Times |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222132516/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/da0c310a-8f32-11e3-be85-00144feab7de.html |archive-date=22 February 2014 |url-status=dead }}

Provenance

  • Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired from the artist on 2 June 1898)
  • Mr Burke, London (acquired from the above on 11 January 1899)
  • Arthur Tooth & Sons, London
  • Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired from the above on 14 August 1901)
  • Paul Cassirer, Berlin (acquired from the above on 13 October 1902)
  • Adolf Rothermundt, Dresden (acquired circa 1914)
  • Max Silberberg, Breslau (acquired by 1923)
  • Sale: Paul Graupe, Berlin, 23 March 1935, lot 27 (forced sale by Max Silberberg)
  • Alfred & Marie Erlich, New York
  • Nathan J. & Sara N. Cohn, Mount Vernon (acquired from the above)
  • Knoedler & Co., New York (acquired from the above on 9 November 1959)
  • John & Frances L. Loeb, New York (acquired from the above on 4 January 1960)
  • The American Friends of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (a bequest from the above in 1997)
  • The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (a gift from the above in 1997)
  • Restituted to Gerta Silberberg on 1 February 2000, and placed on loan with The Israel Museum until 2013

Exhibition history

  • Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Œuvres récentes de Camille Pissarro, 1898, no. 24
  • St. Petersburg, Société Impériale d’Encouragement des Arts, Expositions française des Beaux-Arts et des Arts décoratifs, 1899, no. 274
  • Rheims, Société des Amis des Arts, 16e Exposition générale, 1901, no. 563
  • Dresden, Galerie Ernst Arnold, Ausstellung von Gemälden französischer Künstler, 1902, no. 26
  • Dresden, Galerie Ernst Arnold, Französische Malerei des XIX. Jahrhunderts, 1914, no. 79
  • New York, Wildenstein & Co., C. Pissarro, 1965, no. 66
  • New York, Wildenstein & Co., ‘One Hundred Years of Impressionism’: A Tribute to Durand-Ruel, 1970, no. 88, illustrated in the catalogue
  • Dallas, Dallas Museum of Art; Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art & London, Royal Academy of Arts, The Impressionist and the City: Pissarro’s Series Paintings, 1992–93, no. 51, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
  • Rovereto, Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Impressionists and Post-Impressionists: Masterpieces from the Israel Museum of Jerusalem, 2008–09, no. 6

See also

Notes

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Citations

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Bibliography

  • Mauclair, Camille. The French Impressionists, London & New York, 1903, illustrated p. 2.
  • Pissarro, Joachim and Snollaerts, Claire Durand-Ruel. Pissarro, Critical Catalogue of Paintings, Paris, 2005, vol. III, no. 1171, illustrated in colour p. 736.
  • Scheffler, Karl. Die Sammlung Max Silberberg, in Kunst und Künstler, October 1931, mentioned p. 12.