Snowy Landscape at South Norwood

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Snowy Landscape at South Norwood

1871
Paintings
Oil on canvas
17 11/16 × 21 7/8 in. (45 × 55.5 cm)
Partial, fractional and promised gift of Janice and Henri Lazarof (M.2005.70.116)
Currently on public view:
Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3

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Provenance

The artist (1830-1903); sold on 4 September 1871 to Jules Berthel; [Claude Roger-Marx, Paris]; sold to M....
The artist (1830-1903); sold on 4 September 1871 to Jules Berthel; [Claude Roger-Marx, Paris]; sold to M. Lang, Switzerland; to his daughter in law Gertrude Lang, Switzerland; [sold at Sotheby's, London, 26 June 1990, lot no.3]; [to Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne]; sold in 1992 to Janice and Henri Lazarof, Los Angeles; given in 2005 to LACMA.
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Label

Camille Pissarro achieved his greatest success by capturing the ethereal effects of the outdoors, as in The Path to Les Pouilleux, Pontoise, Peasant House at Éragny (to the left), and ...
Camille Pissarro achieved his greatest success by capturing the ethereal effects of the outdoors, as in The Path to Les Pouilleux, Pontoise, Peasant House at Éragny (to the left), and Snowy Landscape at South Norwood (to the right). With skillful brushstrokes, which are increasingly layered in the two later paintings, Pissarro created glittering surfaces that reflect the changing qualities of the skies, foliage, and fields.

Although ethnically and politically an outsider (Pissarro, an atheist and self-described anarchist, was born to a Jewish family on the Caribbean island of St. Thomas, formerly a Danish colony), he was never theless a central figure in the Impressionist narrative.

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Bibliography

  • Pissarro, Joachim, and Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts. Pissarro: Critical Catalogue of Paintings. Translated by Mark Hutchinson and Michael Taylor. Milan: Skira; Paris: Wildenstein Institute, 2005.
  • Pissarro, Joachim, and Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts. Pissarro: Critical Catalogue of Paintings. Translated by Mark Hutchinson and Michael Taylor. Milan: Skira; Paris: Wildenstein Institute, 2005.
  • Barron, Stephanie. Envisioning Modernism: The Janice and Henri Lazarof Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2012.
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