Camille Pissarro

Danish-French painter, 1830-1903

"Pissarro’s importance resides in his contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Pissarro is the only artist to have shown his work at all eight Paris Impressionist exhibitions, from 1874 to 1886. He ""acted as a father figure not only to the Impressionists"" but to all four of the major Post-Impressionists, including Georges Seurat, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin. During his lifetime, he only sold few of his paintings. By the 21st century, however, his paintings were selling for millions."

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Pissarro, Camille

French painter (1830–1903). Autograph letter signed. Pontoise. 8vo. 2 pp.
$ 3,243 / 3.000 € (48457)

Charming letter to the painter Armand Gautier, apologizing for a missed appointment: "Je regrette d'avoir manqué le rendez-vous que vous me donnez. Ma femme m'a envoyé votre lettre hier soir, je ne l'ai que ce matin et il est impossible d'aller à Paris aujourd'hui, j'irai à Paris dimanche je passerai chez vous lundi ou mardi je ne puis préciser. Je repartirai pour Pontoise, je travaille ici. Bien à vous." - Armand Gautier is best known today as a friend of Gustave Courbet, with whom he shared a cell following their participation in the Paris Commune, and other important realist and impressionist artists.

He also introduced the physician, amateur painter, and engraver Paul Gachet (1828–1909) to his artistic circles. Gachet was Pissarro's family doctor but is most famous for his professional and private relationship with Vincent van Gogh. - Well preserved..

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Pissarro, Camille

painter (1830-1903). Autograph Letter Signed ("C. Pissarro"). 8vo. 1 p.
$ 5,946 / 5.500 € (60680)

The Impressionist painter writes to his friend, the antiquarian and collector Eugène Baillet (1829-1906). Pissarro solicits his opinion on two objects which belong to someone at the Hotel Garnier: a [Limoges] enamel which purports to be from the school of Raymond and a miniature from the time of Charles X. If Baillet cannot come at the suggested time, he should ask to see Jean at the hotel who will show him the objects. - With original transmittal envelope.

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Pissarro, Camille

painter (1830-1903). Autograph letter signed ("C. Pissarro"). Paris. 15.04.1902. Small 4to. 1 p. On a self-contained addressed mailing sheet.
$ 13,514 / 12.500 € (34247/BN30044)

To his physician, Dr. Parenteau, asking him to come and see him before his departure because of a congestion: "Cher Docteur. Je suis encore congestioné! Juste au moment où je me dispose à faire mes malles, vous seriez bien aimable de venir me voir, j'ai pu éviter l'accident tous ces jours-ci car cela menacait plus ou moins enfin! Cette fois ça y est!! Je vous serre les mains". - Under his signature, Pissarro adds a brief postscript, giving the reason for the urgency of the matter: "Il faut cependant que je parte! Les fleurs vont disparaître!!!".

- In very good condition; with central horizontal and vertical fold, a bit of mild toning, rusty paperclip mark along top edge, adhesive residue along left edge, and show-through from postmarks and printing on reverse..

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Pissarro, Camille

Danish-French painter (1830-1903). Autograph letter signed. Éragny-sur-Epte par Gisors. 8vo. 1 ½ pp. on bifolium.
$ 3,784 / 3.500 € (83077/BN54511)

To the art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel (1831-1922), hoping to borrow 500 francs to cover the costs of his house, a sum he requested in a previous letter, predicting his expenses to double the following month: "Puis-je compter sur ce que je vous ai demandé dans ma dernière lettre. Nous voilà à la fin du mois, et mes dépenses vont être doublées le mois prochain. Je sais bien que ce moment est difficile, mais que faire? Je comptais recevoir 500F car par suite du loyer, nous avons eu peu de choses pour les dépenses de la maison [...]".

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Pissarro, Camille

Danish-French painter (1830-1903). Autograph letter signed. London. 12.06.1892. 8vo. 3 pp. on bifolium.
$ 13,514 / 12.500 € (83078/BN54512)

To the painter Claude Monet, thanking him for lending him 15,000 francs to pay a mortgage and announcing to write to his wife so she can let them know when the sum should be disbursed; also agreeing to lend Monet his painting "La cueillette des pois" in exchange, a work he planned to lend either to his friend or the Musée de Luxembourg, but the museum having taken too long to reply: "Je vous remercie de l'empressement que vous mettez à me rendre service. Moi non plus, je n'ai aucune idée sur les prêts sur Hypothèques et je crois en effet que ce serait plus simple de nous arranger ensemble.

Cela me va parfaitement, je vais écrire à ma femme que vous tenez à Ma disposition 15 mille francs de vouloir bien nous dire pour quelle époque le versement, nous pourrons parfaire la somme facilement. Quant aux femmes qui ramassent des pois, c'est trop flatteur pour que je n'y sois pas sensible. J'étais du reste ennuyé de vous l'avoir refusé, je l'ai donné à ma femme avec la condition de le céder à un moment donné au Luxembourg si on me le demandait ou à vous. Certainement ma femme y consentira. Tant pis le Luxembourg a trop tardé, je serai enchanté que ce soit chez un ami. Voilà mon vieux camarade nous serons tous contents [...]". - In conclusion Pissarro considers his wife's idea to buy the house a curious one, but knows he would regret it to have refused her: "Enfin!! Drôle d'idée qu'a ma femme de vouloir acheter la maison, mais j'aurais des remords de la lui refuser [...]"..

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Pissarro, Camille

painter (1830-1903). Autograph letter signed. No place or date. 8vo. 1¼ pp. on bifolium.
$ 2,703 / 2.500 € (91720/BN61043)

To his wife Julie Vellay with family news concerning a possible journey to Marseille by Ruth Bensusan-Butt, instead of Ruth's sister and Camille's daughter-in-law Esther Levi Bensusan (1870-1951), whom Pissarro convinced to stay with her sick husband Lucien Pissarro, whose health is gradually improving, so that Julie might not have to go to Paris: "Esther t'a écrit-aujourd'hui pour te dire qu'elle partait à Marseilles, J'ai persuadé Esther de ne pas quitter son mari, de sorte que nous allons voir à arranger autrement ce voyage, Ruth fera probablement ce voyage à sa place.

Ne te déranges pas pour aller à Paris. Lucien est beaucoup mieux il a passé une heure sur la terrasse au soleil et-s'en est trouvé très bien, au revoir à demain / C. Pissarro / je n'ai pas de timbre le Dimanche". - Camille and Julie (1839-1926) married in Croydon, England, in 1871; they had met some ten years earlier when Julie came to the parental home in Montmorency as maid. Their first two of altogether seven children were born illegitimately, which caused Pissarro's father, scandalized by this mesalliance, to cut Camille's allowance. Ruth Bensusan-Butt (1877-1957) would go on to become the first female medical doctor in Colchester. - Counter-leaf clipped at half length. Well preserved with only a small edge tear and one margin slightly browned..

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Pissarro, Camille

Eigenh. Briefentwurf ohne U.
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In French, from the formative years of the Impressionist movement: "Would you have the kindness to do me a great service? I received a personal invitation from Berlin for an exhibition by an association I’m not familiar with: the Verein Berliner Künstler [Association of Berlin Artists] at Bellevue St. 3. Because I don't know anything about them would you be so kind as to tell me if that Association is trustworthy and whether my paintings might not clash with the artists who exhibit there. Please excuse my troubling you. I count on your discretion. I’ve thought about your little painting and corresponded with our friend [art dealer] Portier on the subject but he's had a relapse and is bedridden. I learned this morning that he’s doing better and I hope that we'll still be able to pursue our little transaction." The mention of the invitation from Berlin places this letter around the time of Pissarro’s involvement in the Association of Berlin Artists exhibition in 1892. This would mark Pissarro's first exposition of this size, an event that the artist himself claimed as a “sensation” - while others, notably the dean of the conservative Berlin artists group, Adolf von Menzel, proclaimed his disdain and rejection of the Impressionist cause. - In fine condition, with a couple light rusty paperclip marks to left edge.


Pissarro, Camille

Autograph letter signed ("C. Pissarro").
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