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CAMILLE PISSARRO (1830-1903)
Lot 593 IMPRESSIONIST AND POST-IMPRESSIONIST ART FROM THE COLLECTIONS OF ARNOLD GUMOWITZ AND THE ANNE ULNICK FOUNDATION

CAMILLE PISSARRO (1830-1903)

Paysanne à la fourche

Closed11 November 2023

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CAMILLE PISSARRO (1830-1903)
Paysanne à la fourche
signed with initials 'C.P' (lower right); inscribed 'No. 5' (on the reverse)
charcoal on paper
9 ½ x 7 1⁄8 in. (24.1 x 18.2 cm.)
Drawn circa 1891

Private collection, Brazil; sale, Sotheby's, New York, 21 February 2002, lot 7.
Private collection, United States (acquired at the above sale); sale, Sotheby's, New York, 13 March 2013, lot 5.
Anon. (acquired at the above sale); sale, Sotheby's, London, 4 February 2015, lot 111.
Acquired at the above sale by Arnold and Anne Ulnick Gumowitz.

Specialist note

According to Dr. Joachim Pissarro, the artist completed a series of canvases in 1881 of rural women, which mostly depicted peasant women in various positions of rest, often seated, leaning, or lying on the ground. In keeping with this series, Paysanne à la fourche depicts a woman leaning on her pitchfork with a standing woman behind her and the two female figures wear simple costumes and are depicted as strong and hardy rather than willowy and graceful.