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CAMILLE PISSARRO
Port de Rouen (avec cheminées)
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Drypoint printed in black on cream laid paper, 1885. 151x170 mm; 6x6
3
/
4
inches, full
margins.Third state (of 3). One of approximately only 10 lifetime impressions in this state,
from a total of approximately 14 lifetime impressions in all three states combined. Signed,
titled and inscribed “no. 3” in pencil, lower margin.A superb impression of this extremely
scarce print.
We have found only one other lifetime impression at auction in the past 30 years. Delteil 57.
[8,000/12,000]
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CAMILLE PISSARRO
L’Île Lacroix, à Rouen
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Drypoint printed in black on imitation Japan paper, 1883-87. 115x158 mm; 4
5
/
8
x6
1
/
4
inches, full margins. Second state (of 2). Inscribed “no. 1” and titled in pencil, lower
margin.With the artist’s initials blue ink stamp (Lugt 613d, lower right recto).A very good
impression of this scarce drypoint.
There is a related drawing which dates from 1883, now in the Ashmolean Museum,
Oxford, as well as a painting dating from 1888, now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Delteil 69.
[1,500/2,500]
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