Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), Jardin de Kew, Londres, près d'un étang

Camille Pissarro (1830-1903)
Jardin de Kew, Londres, près d'un étang
signed and dated 'C. Pissarro. 1892.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
18 ¼ x 21 ¾ in. (46.3 x 55.2 cm.)
Painted in 1892

Provenance
Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., Paris (acquired from the artist, 17 March 1893 and until 1950).
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York and French Art Galleries, New York (November 1955).
French Art Galleries, New York (acquired from the above, 24 January 1957).
Georges Lévy, Paris.
Gérard Leclery, Paris; sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., London, 3 December 1975, lot 23.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owners.

Pre-Lot Text
Property from the Collection of Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass

Literature
L.R. Pissarro and L. Venturi, Camille Pissarro: son art—son oeuvre, Paris, 1939, vol. I, p. 193, no. 798 (illustrated, vol. II, pl. 164).
J. Bailly-Herzberg, Correspondance de Camille Pissarro, Paris, 1988, vol. III, p. 312, nos. 8 and 19 and vol. IV, p. 532, no. 1617 (titled l'Etang, Près d'un étang à Kew and Environs de l'étang à Kew, respectively).
M. Ward, Pissarro: Neo-Impressionism and the Spaces of the Avant-Garde, Chicago, 1996, p. 254 (illustrated, p. 253, fig. 11.5).
J. Pissarro and C. Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, Pissarro: Catalogue critique des peintures, Paris, 2005, vol. III, p. 621, no. 947 (illustrated in color).

Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., Oeuvres récentes de Camille Pissarro, March 1893, no. 8 (titled Près l'étang).
The Hague, Haagsche Kunstkring, Tentoostelling van schilderijen en beeldhouwwerken van werken leden der 1ste afdeeling en van werklen van Claude Monet, Renoir, Sisley, en C. Pissarro, October-November 1893, no. 51.
Brussels, Première Exposition du Salon de la Libre Esthétique, February-March 1894, no. 340.
New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries, The Art of Camille Pissarro in Retrospect, March-April 1941, no. 27.
(possibly) Lausanne, Galerie A. Gattlan, De Monet à Picasso, June-July 1963, no. 17.
Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, The Collection of Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass, March-May 2015, p. 46, no. 22 (illustrated in color, p. 47; titled Close to the Pond, Kew Gardens).