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Pissarro's Poetic Everydayness

Published on , by Claire Papon
Auction on 27 March 2021 - 15:00 (CET) - Salle 9 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009

This figure of a woman hanging laundry by Camille Pissarro, a study for his painting of the same title, now in the Musée d'Orsay, comes from a Swiss collection.

Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), Femme étendant du linge, Éragny (Woman Hanging Laundry,... Pissarro's Poetic Everydayness

Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), Femme étendant du linge, Éragny (Woman Hanging Laundry, Éragny), oil on canvas, c. 1887, 73.3 x 59.7 cm (28.9 x 23.5 in).
Estimate: €500,000/800,000

"It is astonishing how everything is part of the same flow: when seen together, the first things, the Pontoise series, the systematic divisions and the recent things all form a whole, and do not seem as disunited as I once thought [...] Regardless of what the things you make are influenced…
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Saturday 27 March 2021 - 15:00 (CET) - Live
Salle 9 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009 Paris
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