oil on canvas
22 x 26cm
21.5 x 25.5ins
Exhibited:
Sheffield, Ruskin Gallery, 1928 Birmingham, Ruskin Gallery, 1926
Literature:
Letter from Lucien to Esther Pissarro, Pissarro Family Archive, Ashmolean, Oxford, 16 May 1924 Birmingham Daily Post, 1 February 1928, p8
£68,000
In 1904 he started exhibiting with the New English Art Club, which is where he first met Sickert. A reviewer would write of Pissarro’s work in 1912 that his landscapes ‘have nothing to distinguish them from the commonplace, except the fact that they make one want to take a walk in them – and that is everything.’