Camille Pissarro
Snowy Landscape at South Norwood1871

On view:

Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3

Oil painting of a snow-covered hillside with bare trees and distant rooftops under a pale overcast sky, signed and dated 1871

Artist or Maker: Camille Pissarro
West Indies, active France, 1830-1903
Title: Snowy Landscape at South Norwood
Date Made: 1871
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 17 11/16 × 21 7/8 in. (45 × 55.5 cm)
Credit Line: Partial, fractional and promised gift of Janice and Henri Lazarof
Accession Number: M.2005.70.116
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: Modern Art
Curatorial Notes: 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.

Wall label, 2021.
Provenance: 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.
Selected Bibliography: 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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