Sale 2532 - 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings, March 5, 2020

55 c CAMILLE PISSARRO Repos du dimanche dans le bois. Etching and drypoint printed in dark brownish black on cream laid paper, 1891. 176x289 mm; 7x11 3 / 8 inches, full margins. Third state (of 3). One of approximately only 14 lifetime impressions in this state. Signed, titled and inscribed “2e état no. 10” and “Z. tirée claire” in pencil, lower margin. A very good impression of this large, scarce etching. We have found only 6 other lifetime impressions at auction in the past 30 years. By 1884, Pissarro (1830-1903) had moved from Pontoise, near Paris, to the small village of Éragny near Gisors, which was midway between Paris and Rouen, perhaps prompted by a need to source new subject matter for his paintings and prints. According to Shapiro, Pissarro wrote to his son Lucien, also an artist, after moving to Eragny, noting “I think you will find attractive things to paint in Gisors, subjects, moreover, which should interest the English: churches, markets, farms, stations, coachmen, shopkeepers, and the landscape itself.”