Le Boulevard de Montmartre, matinée de printemps
Painting by Camille Pissarro
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Le Boulevard de Montmartre, matinée de printemps (English: Boulevard Montmartre, Spring) is an 1897 oil on canvas painting of Paris' Boulevard Montmartre by Camille Pissarro. The work is part of a series of 14 paintings from the same year depicting Pissarro's view of the boulevard from his room at the Grand Hôtel de Russie.[1] A nearly identical work with the same title is in the collection of the Museum Langmatt.[2]
| Boulevard Montmartre, Spring | |
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| Le Boulevard de Montmartre, matinée de printemps (French) | |
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| Artist | Camille Pissarro |
| Year | 1897 |
| Catalogue | JP and CD-RS 1171 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 65 cm × 81 cm (26 in × 32 in) |
| Location | Private collection |
On 5 February 2014 it was auctioned at Sotheby's, London for £19,682,500,[Note 1] double its pre-sale estimate.[1][3]
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[1]
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[1]
Other works in the series
Boulevard Montmartre à Paris, 1897. Hermitage Museum
Mardi Gras on the Boulevards, 1897. Fogg Museum
Boulevard Montmartre, morning, cloudy weather, 1897. National Gallery of Victoria
The Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning, 1897. Metropolitan Museum of Art
Boulevard Montmartre, Spring, 1897. Museum Langmatt
The Boulevard Montmartre at Night, 1897. National Gallery
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