Le Boulevard de Montmartre, Matinée de Printemps explained

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Le Boulevard de Montmartre, Matinée de Printemps
Artist:	Camille Pissarro
Catalogue:	JP and CD-RS 1171
Year:	1897
Medium:	oil on canvas
Height Metric:	65
Width Metric:	81
Metric Unit:	cm
Imperial Unit:	in
Museum:	Private Collection

Le Boulevard de Montmartre, Matinée de Printemps is a painting of Paris' Boulevard Montmartre by Camille Pissarro.

On 5 February 2014 it was auctioned at Sotheby's, London, for £19,682,500,^[1] double its pre-sale estimate.^{[2] [3]}

Provenance

• Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired from the artist on 2 June 1898)
• Mr Burke, London (acquired from the above on 11 January 1899)
• Arthur Tooth & Sons, London
• Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired from the above on 14 August 1901)
• Paul Cassirer, Berlin (acquired from the above on 13 October 1902)
• Adolf Rothermundt, Dresden (acquired circa 1914)
• Max Silberberg, Breslau (acquired by 1923)
• Sale: Paul Graupe, Berlin, 23 March 1935, lot 27 (forced sale by Max Silberberg)
• Alfred & Marie Erlich, New York
• Nathan J. & Sara N. Cohn, Mount Vernon (acquired from the above)
• Knoedler & Co., New York (acquired from the above on 9 November 1959)
• John & Frances L. Loeb, New York (acquired from the above on 4 January 1960)
• The American Friends of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (a bequest from the above in 1997)
• The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (a gift from the above in 1997)
• Restituted to Gerta Silberberg on 1 February 2000, and placed on loan with The Israel Museum until 2013

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Exhibition history

• Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Œuvres récentes de Camille Pissarro, 1898, no. 24
• St. Petersburg, Société Impériale d’Encouragement des Arts, Expositions française des Beaux-Arts et des Arts décoratifs, 1899, no. 274
• Rheims, Société des Amis des Arts, 16e Exposition générale, 1901, no. 563
• Dresden, Galerie Ernst Arnold, Ausstellung von Gemälden französischer Künstler, 1902, no. 26
• Dresden, Galerie Ernst Arnold, Französische Malerei des XIX. Jahrhunderts, 1914, no. 79
• New York, Wildenstein & Co., C. Pissarro, 1965, no. 66
• New York, Wildenstein & Co., ‘One Hundred Years of Impressionism’: A Tribute to Durand-Ruel, 1970, no. 88, illustrated in the catalogue
• Dallas, Dallas Museum of Art; Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art & London, Royal Academy of Arts, The Impressionist and the City: Pissarro’s Series Paintings, 1992–93, no. 51, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
• Rovereto, Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Impressionists and Post-Impressionists: Masterpieces from the Israel Museum of Jerusalem, 2008–09, no. 6

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See also

• List of paintings by Camille Pissarro
• Boulevard Montmartre, Mardi Gras
• Holocaust in Germany

Bibliography

• Mauclair,Camille. The French Impressionists, London & New York, 1903, illustrated p. 2.
• Pissarro, Joachim and Snollaerts, Claire Durand-Ruel. Pissarro, Critical Catalogue of Paintings, Paris, 2005, vol. III, no. 1171, illustrated in colour p. 736.
• Scheffler, Karl. Die Sammlung Max Silberberg, in Kunst und Künstler, October 1931, mentioned p. 12.

Notes and References

1. [Hammer price]
2. Web site: 5 February 2014 - Lot 43. Sotheby's.
3. News: Adam . Georgina . The Art Market: Sotheby’s Impressionist and modern art auction scores £163.5m . . https://web.archive.org/web/20140222132516/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/da0c310a-8f32-11e3-be85-00144feab7de.html . 22 February 2014 . dead .