Stolen Art DealerOil painting of a wooden fence leading into a flowering meadow beside a kitchen garden, where two women pick vegetables beneath tall poplars under a grey sky.
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Catalogue No. 1128 · Christie's · New York
Paysage avec peupliers, temps gris, Eragny
About $6.4 million in today’s money: 74 years of the typical US household’s income. Source
- Artist
- Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903)
- Title
- Paysage avec peupliers, temps gris, Eragny
- Date
- 1899
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Size
- 81.2 x 65 cm (32 x 25 5/8 in)
Camille Pissarro signed and dated this landscape 'C. Pissarro. 99'. It is an oil on canvas, 81.2 by 65 centimetres, painted at Eragny in 1899. A hand-made wooden fence leads into a meadow of wildflowers on the left, while on the right two women pick vegetables in a kitchen garden beneath tall poplars. The sky is overcast, with light mauve tints.
After Pissarro's death the picture stayed in the family. Julie Pissarro held it from 1904 as part of the artist's estate, and Ludovic-Rodolphe Pissarro received it from her as a gift in 1921. It later passed to the dealer Sam Salz in New York, from whom Peggy and David Rockefeller acquired it in May 1953.
Christie's sold it in New York on 8 May 2018, as lot 13 in the evening sale of The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller, against an estimate of $3,000,000 to $5,000,000. Christie's lists the price realised as $4,812,500. The lot page does not say whether that figure includes the buyer's premium.
The sale
- Auction house
- Christie's, New York
- Date
- 8 May 2018
- Lot
- 13
- Estimate
- $3,000,000–5,000,000
- Sold for
- $4.8 million (including buyer’s premium) · $4,812,500
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Provenance
1899
Painted by Pissarro at Eragny; signed and dated 'C. Pissarro. 99'
1904
Estate of the artist; Julie Pissarro, Paris (by descent)
1921
Ludovic-Rodolphe Pissarro, Paris (gift from the above)
undated
Sam Salz, Inc., New York (acquired from the above)
1953-05
Acquired from the above by Peggy and David Rockefeller
2018-05-08
The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller, Christie's, New York, lot 13
Sources
- Christie's: Camille Pissarro, Paysage avec peupliers, temps gris, Eragny (lot page)
- Christie's: Camille Pissarro, Paysage avec peupliers, temps gris, Eragny (lot page, price realised)
- Sotheby's: 41. Camille Pissarro (top 10 results 2018 to H1 2023)
Prices include the buyer’s premium, in US dollars at the time of sale, unless marked as a hammer price.