Stolen Art DealerOil painting of the Boulevard Montmartre in Paris in morning mist, by Camille Pissarro, 1897.
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Catalogue No. 1129 · Sotheby's · London
Le Boulevard Montmartre, brume du matin
About $6.2 million in today’s money: 70 years of the typical US household’s income. Source
- Artist
- Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903)
- Title
- Le Boulevard Montmartre, brume du matin
- Date
- 1897
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Size
- 54 x 65.5 cm (21 1/4 x 25 3/4 in)
Camille Pissarro painted Le Boulevard Montmartre, brume du matin in 1897. It is an oil on canvas, 54 by 65.5 centimetres, and it shows the Paris boulevard in morning mist. It belongs to Pissarro's series of boulevard views.
The Galerie Durand-Ruel in Paris acquired the picture from the artist on 11 May 1897. Durand-Ruel's New York branch held it in 1926, and in 1949 it passed to Madeleine de Brécey, a granddaughter of Paul Durand-Ruel. The dealer Sam Salz then handled it, and Mrs Etta E. Steinberg acquired it from him in May 1956. It was sold from her collection at Christie's in New York on 19 May 1981, as lot 335, to the buyer who consigned it in 2018.
Sotheby's offered the painting in London on 19 June 2018, in its Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale, as lot 10, with an estimate of £3,000,000 to £5,000,000. ArtsLife, reproducing the sale results, gives the price as £3,490,000. Sotheby's lists it as $4.6 million. Bloomberg reports that final prices at that sale included the buyer's commission.
The sale
- Auction house
- Sotheby's, London
- Date
- 19 June 2018
- Lot
- 10
- Estimate
- £3,000,000–5,000,000
- Sold for
- $4.6 million (including buyer’s premium) · £3,490,000
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Provenance
1897-05-11
Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired from the artist)
1926
Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York (acquired from the above)
1949
Madeleine de Brécey, granddaughter of Paul Durand-Ruel (acquired from the above)
undated
Sam Salz, New York
1956-05
Mrs Etta E. Steinberg (acquired from the above); sold Christie's, New York, 19 May 1981, lot 335
1981-05-19
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner (consignor in 2018)
2018-06-19
Sotheby's, London, Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale, lot 10
Sources
- Sotheby's: Camille Pissarro, Le Boulevard Montmartre, brume du matin (lot 10, L18006)
- Sotheby's: 41. Camille Pissarro (top 10 results 2018 to H1 2023)
- ArtsLife: Sotheby's London 19 June 2018 results, lot-by-lot
- Bloomberg: Sotheby's Fails to Reach Low Estimate at Modern Art Auction
Prices include the buyer’s premium, in US dollars at the time of sale, unless marked as a hammer price.