Camille Pissarro

LES QUATRE SAISONS (L'HIVER, LE PRINTEMPS, L'ETÉ, L'AUTOMNE)

1830 - 1903

L'Hiver: signed C. Pissarro (lower right)

Le Printemps: signed C. Pissarro and dated 1872 (lower left)

L'Eté: signed C. Pissarro (lower left)

L'Automne: signed C. Pissarro (lower left)
oil on canvas (in four parts)
each: 55 by 131cm.
21 7/8 by 51 7/8 in. (approximately)
Painted in Louveciennes & Pontoise in 1872-73.

Provenance:
Achille Arosa, Paris (acquired from the artist in 1872. Sold: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 6th May 1891, lot 26)

Galerie Bernheim-Jeune et Cie., Paris (purchased at the above sale)

Alexander Reid, Glasgow (acquired from the above on 3rd March 1892. Sold: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 10th June 1898, lot 45 (titled La neige à Moret)) (this line of provenance only applies to L'Hiver; the other three canvases were purchased directly from Galerie Bernheim-Jeune et Cie., Paris by Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., Paris on 4th April 1894)

Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., Paris (purchased at the above sale)

Paul Cassirer, Berlin (acquired from the above)

Hugo Cassirer, Berlin (acquired from the above on 21st February 1908)

Lotte Fürstenberg-Cassirer & Hugo Cassirer (sold by their estate: Sotheby's, London, 1st December 1971, lot 8)

J. Bradley (purchased at the above sale)

Galerie Schmit, Paris

Mr Nusser, London (acquired from the above in 1981)

Private Collection, Zurich

Sale: Christie's, New York, 5th November 1991, lot 36d

Private Collection, Europe (purchased at the above sale. Sold: Christie's, New York, 3rd November 2004, lot 33)

Private Collection, Europe (purchased at the above sale. Sold Christie?s, New York, 6th November 2007, lot 11)

Purchased at the above sale by the present owner