LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

18 1?2 x 21 7?8 in. (47 x 55.5 cm.)

Description:

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Exhibited:

Atlanta, High Museum of Art, Cézanne and the Modern: Masterpieces of European Art from the Pearlman Collection, October 2014-January 2015.

Literature:

L.R. Pissarro and L. Venturi, Camille Pissarro: Son art–son oeuvre, Paris, 1939, vol. I, p. 262, no. 1307 (illustrated, vol. II, p. 254). J. Pissarro and C. Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, Pissarro: Catalogue critique des peintures, Paris, 2005, vol. III, p. 910, no. 1505 (illustrated in color).

Provenance:

Ludovic-Rodolphe Pissarro, Paris (by descent from the artist, 1904). Sally Falk, Mannheim. Paul Cassirer, Berlin (acquired from the above, April 1918). Norbert Levy, Berlin (acquired from the above, November 1918). Ludwig and Margaret Kainer, Berlin (by descent from the above, 1928). Confiscated from the above by the Berlin tax office, as a consequence of Nazi persecution (1935); sale, Auktionshaus Union (Leo Spik), Berlin, 31 May 1935, lot 98. Günther Quandt, Berlin (acquired at the above sale). Recovered by the Allies from Jesuiten-Schloss, Baden-Baden (4 October 1945) and transferred to The Netherlands (1946). Returned to the Central Collecting Point, Baden-Baden (1952), by which returned to Günther Quandt (3 March 1953). Galerie Neuendorf, Frankfurt am Main. Achim Moeller Fine Art, New York (on consignment from the above). Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1994. To be offered for sale pursuant to a settlement agreement between the current owner and the heirs of Ludwig and Margaret Kainer. The settlement agreement resolves the dispute over ownership of the work and the title will pass to the successful bidder.