Camille Pissarro
The Hills at Le Chou, Pontoise, 1882
On view
6 further works by Pissarro
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Oil on canvas, 60,3 x 73,6 cm
Signed and dated lower right: C. Pissarro 1882
Inv.-no. MB-Pis-01
An unusual view of a hillside, seen diagonally in the foreground, combines an extreme closeup with pictorial depth. With a nuanced palette of colors and minute brushstrokes, Camille Pissarro created a pulsating texture that evokes the lush variety of flowers and grasses of a summer meadow.
Exposition de tableaux de Monet, Pissarro, Renoir et Sisley, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, April 1899, no. 47 (Environs de Pontoise)
Exhibition of L’Art Nouveau S. Bing, Paris, Grafton Galleries, London, 1899
Pictures by French Impressionists: Monet, Sisley, Pissarro, Renoir and other Masters, Hanover Gallery, London, January 1–February 28, 1901, no. 36
Galerie Marie Held, Frankfurt, 1910
Gemälde-Ausstellung Französischer Meister, Kunstsalon Wolfsberg, Zurich, 1912
Französische Malerei, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, 1916, no. 113 (?)
Paintings by Camille Pissarro, Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York, 1923, no. 4 ( Environs de Pontoise)
Paintings by Modern French Master, Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, 1924, no. 30
Pissarro, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, June–September 1956, no. 45 (Sente et coteaux d'Auvers)
Camille Pissarro, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, January 20–March 10, 1957, no. 60 (Sente et coteaux d'Auvers)
Die Ile de France und ihre Maler, Nationalgalerie in der Orangerie des Schlosses Charlottenburg, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, September–November 1963, no. 1922
Four Masters of Impressionism, Acquavella Galleries, New York, October 24–November 30, 1968, no. 31
XIXth and XXth Century Master Paintings and Sculptures, Acquavella Galleries, New York, November/December 1988, no. 4
Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne & Pissarro, 1865–1885, The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Musée d’Orsay, Paris, 2005/06, no. 97
Permanent loan, Milwaukee Art Museum, 2007–2015
Impressionism: The Art of Landscape, Museum Barberini, Potsdam, January 21–May 28, 2017
Impressionism: The Hasso Plattner Collection, Museum Barberini, Potsdam, from September 5, 2020
before 1891, Galerie
Durand-Ruel, Paris and New York, purchased from the artist, until ca. 1957
ca. 1968, Mr. and Mrs. Neil A. McConnell, New York
June 1988, Acquavella Galleries, New York, acquired from the above
November 1988, Private collection, Tokyo, acquired from the above
1994, Private collection, Japan
November 8, 1999, Christie’s, New York, lot 125
Judith Tanner Moon, acquired at the above sale
November 12, 2015, Christie’s, New York, Collection of Judith Tanner
Moon, lot 5c
T. Reff, “Cézanne’s Constructive Stroke,” in Art Quarterly 25 (March 1962), 214–17
Pictures by French Impressionists: Monet, Sisley, Pissarro, Renoir and other Masters, exh. cat. Hanover Gallery, London 1901, no. 36, p. 12
Ludovic Rodo Pissarro and Lionello Venturi, Camille Pissarro: Son art – son œuvre, Paris 1939, no. 560, p. 160 (Sente et coteaux d'Auvers), plate 115
Leopold Reidemeister, Auf den Spuren der Maler der Ile de France, Berlin 1963, ill. p. 72
Four Masters of Impressionism, exh. cat. Acquavella Galleries, New York 1968, no. 31 (Sente et coteaux d'Auvers)
Barbara Ehrlich White, Impressionists Side by Side: Their friendships, rivalries, and artistic exchanges, New York 1996, ill. p. 139
Anne-Birgitte Fonsmark, Gauguin and Impressionism, Copenhagen 2005, p. 179 (Path and Slopes, Auvers), plate 138
Joachim Pissarro and Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, Pissarro: Critical Catalogue of Paintings, vol. 2, Milan 2005, no. 673, p. 451
Impressionism: The Art of Landscape, exh. cat. Museum Barberini, Potsdam 2017, no. 46, p. 51, 156, ill. p. 159
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