Live Auction 15482Modern British Art Day Sale
Lucien Pissarro (1863-1944)
Lot 199 THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

Lucien Pissarro (1863-1944)

The Nut Tree

Closed20 November 2018

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GBP 25,000

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Lucien Pissarro (1863-1944)
The Nut Tree
stamped with monogram (lower right)
oil on canvas
25¾ x 20 in. (65.4 x 50.8 cm.)
Painted in May 1938.

The artist's family, The Brook, 1949.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 15 December 1965, lot 87.
Mr Grahame.
Sir Duncan Oppenheim, his sale; Christie's, London, 6 June 2003, lot 22, where purchased by the present owner.

Specialist note

There is a dedication on the stretcher, 'To Madlein in memory of Mother from Orovida'. Orovida Pissarro was Lucien and Esther's only child, born in 1893.