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LUCIEN PISSARRO Sunset on the Thames.
Watercolor and pencil on thin laid paper. 95x125 mm; 3 3/4x5 inches. With the artist's blue monogram ink stamp (the larger version, see Lugt 1756b, lower right recto).
Provenance: Family of the artist, 1944; with Leicester Galleries, London, 1946; sold to Paul Poser, Esquire; private collection, Montreal.
Exhibited: "Memorial Exhibition of Paintings and Water-colours by Lucien Pissarro, 1863–1944," Leicester Galleries, London, January 8-30, 1946, number 71, with the label.
Pissarro (1863-1944) was the oldest of seven children; the son of Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro and his wife Julie (née Vellay). He studied with his father and--like his siblings Georges and Félix--he spent his formative years surrounded by his father's fellow artists such as Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir who frequented the Pissarro home. He was also influenced by Georges Seurat and Paul Signac. In 1886, he exhibited at the last of the Impressionist exhibitions; from 1886 to 1894 he exhibited at the Salon des Independents, Paris.
