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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 1, 2017 | Sotheby's | London | Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale | 19 | $****** - ****** | LES QUATRE SAISONS (L'HIVER, LE PRINTEMPS, L'ETÉ, L'AUTOMNE) |
paintings
55 x 131 cm (21.65 x 51.57 in)
oil on canvas (in four parts)
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)
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
London, Prince's Skating Rink, Second Exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, 1899, no. 36 (Le Printemps); no. 37 (L’Hiver); no. 43 (L’Eté); no. 44 (L’Automne)
Berlin, 12 Kantstrasse, Zweite Kunstausstellung der Berliner Secession, 1900, no. 230 (L’Eté); no. 231 (Le Printemps)
Munich, Kunstausstellungsgebäude, International Kunst-Ausstellung ‘Secession’, 1900, no. 223 (L’Automne)
Berlin, Paul Cassirer, Pissarro, 1904, no. 3 (Le Printemps); no. 4 (L’Eté); no. 5 (L’Automne); no. 6 (L’Hiver)
Berlin, Paul Cassirer, VI. Ausstellung, 1907, no. 72 (L’Eté); no. 73 (L’Hiver)
Copenhagen, Industriforeningen i Kjøbenhavn, Jodisk Udstilling, 1908, no. 1012 (Le Printemps); no. 1013 (L’Automne); no. 1014 (L’Eté); no. 1015 (L’Hiver)
The Hague, Gemeentemuseum (L’Hiver, Le Printemps & L’Eté on extended loan, June 1933-April 1939)
The Hague, Gemeentemuseum, Catalogues van de schilderijen, aquarellen en teekeningen, 1935, 41-33 (Le Printemps); no. 42-33 (L’Eté); no. 43-33 (L’Automne); no. 44-33 (L’Hiver)
Buenos Aires, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes; Montevideo, Ministerio de Instrucción Pública & Rio de Janeiro, Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, La Pintura francesa de David a nuestros dias, 1939-40, no. 105a (Le Printemps); no. 105b (L’Eté); no. 105c (L’Automne); no. 105d (L’Hiver)
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art (on extended loan 1946-1971)
Paris, Galerie Schmit, Les Impressionnistes et leurs précurseurs, 1972, no. 52 (Le Printemps); no. 53 (L’Eté); no. 54 (L’Automne); no. 55 (L’Hiver), illustrated in the catalogue
Paris, Galerie Schmit, Aspects de la peinture française (XIXe et XXe siècles), 1978, no. 48
‘International Art Exhibition’, in Black and White, 20th May 1899, mentioned p. 618
Emil Heilbut, ‘Die Impressionistenausstellung der wiener Secession’, in Kunst und Künstler, March 1903, illustrated p. 190 (L’Hiver)
Hans Rosenhagen, ‘Die Zweite Ausstellung der berliner Secession’, in Die Kunst für Alle, 15th July 1900, p. 465 (Le Printemps and L’Eté)
Hans Rosenhagen, ‘Von Ausstellungen und Sammlungen. Berlin Kunstsalon Paul Cassirer’, in Die Kunst für Alle, 15th April 1904, mentioned p. 338
Emil Heilbut, ‘Chronik’, in Kunst und Künstler, April 1904, mentioned p. 294 (L’Eté)
Adolphe Tabarant, Pissarro, Paris, 1924, mentioned p. 34
Charles Kunstler, ‘Des Lettres Inédites de Camille Pissarro à Octave Mirbeau 1891-1892 et à Lucien Pissarro 1898-1899’, in La revue de l'art ancien et moderne, March 1930, vol. LVII, mentioned pp. 188-189
Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro & Lionello Venturi, Camille Pissarro, son art - son oeuvre, Paris, 1939, vol. I, nos. 183-186, catalogued pp. 104-105; vol. II, nos. 183-186, illustrated pl. 37
John Rewald, Pissarro, Paris, n.d. [circa 1960], illustrated fig. 3 (Le Printemps and L’Eté) & 5 (L’Hiver)
John Rewald (ed.), Camille Pissarro: Letters to his son Lucien, New York, 1972, mentioned p. 168 (letter dated Paris, 9th May 1891)
John Rewald, ‘Theo van Gogh, Goupil, and The Impressionists’, in The Gazette des Beaux-Arts, January 1973, illustrated p. 55
John Rewald, ‘Theo van Gogh, Goupil, and The Impressionists, II’, in The Gazette des Beaux-Arts, February 1973, mentioned p. 74
John Rewald, C. Pissarro, Paris, 1974, illustrated p. 62 (Le Printemps and L’Eté); illustrated p. 63 (L’Hiver)
Christopher Lloyd, ‘Camille Pissarro and Japonisme’, in Japonisme in Art. An International Symposium, Tokyo, 1980, mentioned p. 177
Ralph E. Shikes & Paula Harper, Pissarro: His Life and Work, New York, 1980, mentioned p. 260
A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape (exhibition catalogue), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984, illustrated pp. 245-246 (L’Hiver, L’Eté and L’Automne)
Lili Jampoller, ‘Theo van Gogh and Camille Pissarro. Correspondence and an Exhibition’, in Simiolus, 1986, vol. XVI, mentioned p. 59 (letter dating from 5th July 1890)
John Rewald, Histoire de l'Impressionnisme, Paris, 1986, figs. 17-20, illustrated pp. 62-65
Richard Brettell, Pissarro and Pontoise: The Painter in a Landscape, New Haven, 1990, figs. 132-135, illustrated in colour pp. 152-153
Jean-Jacques Lévêque, Les années impressionnistes, 1870-1889, Courbevoie, 1990, illustrated in colour pp. 222-223
Pierre Michel & Jean-François Nivet, Octave Mirbeau. Correspondance avec Camille Pissarro, Tusson, 1990, no. 25, mentioned p. 77 (Le Printemps)
Janine Bailly-Herzberg, Correspondence de Camille Pissarro, Paris, 1991, vol. III, no. 660, mentioned p. 77; no. 728, mentioned p. 164; no. 732, mentioned p. 168; no. 737, mentioned p. 174
Christopher Lloyd, Pissarro, London, 1992, nos. 10-13, illustrated pp. 16-17
Peter H. Feist & Ingo F. Walther, Impressionist Art: Volume I. Impressionism in France, Cologne, 1993, illustrated in colour p. 106
Joachim Pissarro, Camille Pissarro, New York, 1993, illustrated in colour figs. 95-98
Impressionists in Winter: Effets de Neige (exhibition catalogue), The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., 1998, illustrated in colour p. 44 & illustrated p. 182 (L’Hiver)
Joachim Pissarro & Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, Pissarro, Catalogue critique des peintures, Paris, 2005, vol. II, nos. 238-241, illustrated in colour pp. 196-197
Gauguin and Impressionism (exhibition catalogue), Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, 2005, illustrated in colour p. 21
Pissarro: Creating the Impressionist Landscape (exhibition catalogue), The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 2007, illustrated in colour pp. 60-61
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.
