CAMILLE PISSARRO (1830 - 1903 ) Lot n° 251

Woman Hanging Laundry (study) Monogram ‘CP’ (lower left) Oil on canvas mounted on panel 73 x 60 cm Painted circa 1887 Provenance: Inherited by Julie Pissarro, thr artist’s wife in 1904 Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 3 Dec. 1928, mo.43 Collection Bernard Davis, Philadelphia Anonymous sale, New – York, Parke- Bernet 13 avril 1944, n°46, illustrated ; Anonymous sale, New – York, Sotheby’s, 7 mai 2003, n°132, illustrated Anonymous sale, Deauville, 15 aout 2004, n°62, illustrated. Literature: J. Pissarro et C. Durand Ruel Snolaaerts, Pissarro, Catalogue critique des peintures, Volume III, Paris, 2005 (illustrated. p.558, fig. 853) Cézanne et Pissarro. 1865 - 1885, Musée d’Orsay, Paris 28. Februar - 28. Mai 2006, (illuctrated, p. 64, fig.61 ) expert René MILLET This painting is a preparatory sketch for the painting Woman Hanging Laundry, Eragny at the Musee d’Orsay (opus cité supra, n°54, reproduit). All lots marked with the symbol are under temporary importation and are subject to import tax (EU)