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Lucien Pissarro (1863-1944)
Lot 161

Lucien Pissarro (1863-1944)

Vue d'Eragny

Closed20 November 2014

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GBP 50,000

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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.)

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.

Specialist note

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.