Sale: 403 / Modern Art, April 19. 2013 in Munich Lot 86

 

86
Camille Pissarro
La Charrue, 1901.
Lithograph in colors
Estimate:
€ 2,000 / $ 2,140
Sold:
€ 2,000 / $ 2,140

(incl. surcharge)
La Charrue. 1901.
Lithograph in colors.
Delteil 194 III/III. Signed in stone. On wove paper. 22,5 x 15 cm (8,8 x 5,9 in). Sheet: 29,8 x 23,7 cm (11,8 x 9,4 in).
The only lithograph in colors in Pissarro's work, Vollard convinced him to make it: "I should have preferred to do it in black and white, but it seems that color is the fashion" (from a letter to his son Lucien from 12 July, 1896, quoted after: Loys Delteil. Camille Pissarro. L´oeuvre gravé et lithographié. Catalogue Raisonné, San Francisco 1999, p.388). Frontispiecwe for the magazine "Les Temps Nouveaux", a weekly magazine (originally named "La Révolte"), founded in 1896 and published by Jean Grave, a French communist and friend of Pissarro as of 1890. [KP].




86
Camille Pissarro
La Charrue, 1901.
Lithograph in colors
Estimate:
€ 2,000 / $ 2,140
Sold:
€ 2,000 / $ 2,140

(incl. surcharge)