Quai de Rouen (Grand Pont)

Artist Camille Pissarro (French, 1830 - 1903)

Date1896

MediumLithograph on laid blue Ingres paper

DimensionsImage: 8 1/4 × 11 1/2 inches (20.96 × 29.21 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: acquired through the Richard Shields Fund

Object numberF75-15

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Exhibition History

Thirty years of Print Purchases for the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, November 19-December 31, 1989, no. 44, as Quai de Rouen (Grand Pont).

Graphic Masterworks from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, May 23-July 25, 1993, no. 87, as Quai de Rouen (Grand Pont).

Landscapes: Real and Imagined, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, May 24-October 5, 2008, no. cat.

Landscapes: Real and Imagined, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, August 16, 2014-February 22, 2015, no. cat.

Gallery Label

Camille Pissarro first experimented with lithography (a method of printing from a stone) in 1874. After a 20-year hiatus, he embraced the medium with renewed enthusiasm. In 1896, he created a series of prints that depict the city of Rouen, France, which includes this lively view of activity along the Seine River. Though many admire these prints today, Pissarro had difficulty finding buyers. “What a pity there is no demand for my prints,” he wrote to his son. “I find this work as interesting as painting, which everybody does, and there are so few who achieve something in [printmaking].”

Provenance

Dr. Heinrich Stinnes (1867-1932), Cologne, Germany, by 1932;

Purchased at his posthumous sale, Die Sammlung Stinnes Köln, C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, November 10-11, 1932, lot 332, by Galerie Aktuaryus, Zürich [1];

Dr. Sigmund Pollag (1888-1977), Zürich, by November 27, 1973;

His sale, Sammlung Dr. S. Pollag, Zürich, Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich, November 27, 1973, lot 2289;

With Angus Whyte Gallery, Boston, MA, by June 20, 1975;

Purchased from Angus Whyte Gallery by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1975.

NOTES:

[1] According to a handwritten annotation in a sales catalogue in the archives of C. G. Boerner GmbH, Düsseldorf.

Published References

Die Sammlung Stinnes Köln (Leipzig: C. G. Boerner, 1932), 41, as Quai de Rouen (Grand Pont).

Sonderkatalogue Sammlung Dr. S. Pollag, Zürich (Munich: Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, 1973), 90, (repro.), as Quai de Rouen (Grand Pont).

Thirty years of Print Purchases for the Permanent Collection, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1989), 10, as Quai de Rouen (Grand Pont).

George L. McKenna, Graphic Masterworks from the Permanent Collection, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1993, unpaginated, as Quai de Rouen (Grand Pont).

George L. McKenna, The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art 1996), 298, (repro.), as Quai de Rouen (Grand Pont).

Loys Delteil, Camille Pissarro: L'oeuvre Gravé et Lithographié: Catalogue Raisonné (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1999), no. 172, pp. 356, (repro.), as Quai de Rouen (Grand Pont).

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