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CAMILLE PISSARRO

Une rue au patis, Pontoise

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Lithograph printed in black on cream wove China paper, 1874. 265x220 mm; 10

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inches, full margins. One of only several known proof impressions of this subject.A superb,

richly-inked impression of this exceedingly scarce lithograph.

Pissarro made his first lithographs in 1874, after settling in Pontoise, and a full decade

after he had created his first etchings.The ten lithographs he made in 1874 portray family

members as well as the farmers and landscapes around Pontoise.The portraits are informal,

direct and simply rendered; the landscapes and images of country folk, especially in this

lithograph of a man and woman passing on a lane, are drawn more loosely and with a

strong emphasis on the play of light and shadow, approaching Pissarro’s nascent Impressionist

paintings from the early 1870s. He abandoned lithography soon after to focus on painting

and etching, only returning to the medium around 1894 and producing a flurry of some

fifty lithographs over the last decade of his career. Delteil 130.

[7,000/10,000]