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"Paysanne donnant a manger a un enfant" |
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"Paysanne donnant a manger a un enfant", 1874, etching and aquatint printed in dark brownish black, 4 7/8"x 4 3/4", 125x121mm, full margins. Fourth state (of 4). Delteil cites only 15 total lifetime impressions in the first to fourth states. One of only 2 or 3 lifetime impressions in this state. Inscribed "4e etat - No. 4" in pencil, lower left. A very good and brilliant, luminous impression [Delteil 12]. Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) was born in St. Thomas in the Danish West Indies. In 1855, he entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and studied under Corot. He later met Monet at the Academie Suisse and became a member of the Impressionist group becoming a close friend of Cezanne, Gauguin, Signac and Seurat. After the Franco-Prussian War he went to England with Monet and there discovered the art of Constable. On returning to France, Pissarro played a key role in the development of Impressionism. He was the only artist to show in all eight of the Impressionist exhibitions. Pissarro learned to etch with Degas and Mary Cassatt. The etchings he produced were usually in very small editions. Pissarro combined exacting craft, sometimes working his plates many times over, with the utmost freshness of vision, epitomizing the Impressionist aesthetic. His artistic style most resembled Monet's, but it is more poetic with forms muted, more diffusely delineated and his textures are heavier. "Paysanne donnant a manger a un enfant" is in a 23 7/8" x 24 1/2" bronze and warm silver finished, with tan and umber washed highlights, classic rounded tiered group frame. The wood fillet is burl with black undertones. The sandust denim outer and tumbleweed suede inner acid and lignin free mats are protected with Acrylite-AR OP3 (UV) by CYRO ........ SOLD |