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    Woman Mending
    Camille Pissarro. Woman Mending, 1895. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00000620

    Woman Mending

    by Camille Pissarro

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Inscribed lower left: C. Pissarro 1895

    Provenance

    The artist (d. 1903); by descent to his son, Ludovic-Rodolph (Rodo) Pissarro, Paris, 1904 [this and the two following per Pissarro and Snollaerts, 2005]; sold to Sam Saltz, New York, by December 1950; sold to Mrs. Mary Block (née Lasker), Chicago, December 1950; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, beginning in 1959 [in undivided fractional interests, receiving final fractional interest for one hundred percent ownership in 1961].

    Exhibition history

    Copenhagen, Valdemar Kleis, Katalog over Martsudstillingen (1886–1911), Mar. 1911, cat. 34. London, Stafford Gallery, Pictures by Camille Pissarro, from Oct. 13, 1911, cat. 11. Zurich, Switzerland, Moderne Galerie, Camille Pissarro, July 11–Aug. 31, 1913, cat. 7. Paris, Galerie de l’Élysée, C. Pissarro: Des peintures et des pastels de 1880 à 1900 environ, Apr. 23–May 5, 1948, no cat. Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Leigh Block, Oct. 19, 1976–May 20, 1977, no cat. Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art, Shikago bijutsukan insho-ha ten [The impressionist tradition: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago], Oct. 18–Dec. 17, 1985, cat. 49 (ill.); Fukuoka Art Museum, Jan. 5–Feb. 2, 1986; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Mar. 4–Apr. 13, 1986. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Camille Pissarro, Nov 19, 2005–Feb. 19, 2006, cat. 98 (ill.); Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, Mar. 4–May 28, 2006. Kunstmuseum Basel, Camile Pissarro: The Studio of Modernism, Sep. 4, 2021-Jan. 23, 2022. cat. 121.

    Publications

    Katalog over Martsudstillingen, 58 Vesterbrogade, exh. cat. (1911), p. 2, cat. 34. Stafford Gallery, Exhibition of Pictures by Camille Pissarro, 1830–1903, exh. cat. (Stafford Gallery, 1911), p. 10, cat. 11. Ludovic Rodo Pissarro and Lionello Venturi, Camille Pissarro: Son art—son oeuvre, vol. 1, Texte (P. Rosenberg, 1939), p. 210, cat. 934. Ludovic Rodo Pissarro and Lionello Venturi, Camille Pissarro: Son art—son oeuvre, vol. 2, Planche (P. Rosenberg, 1939), pl. 189, cat. 934. John Rewald, Pissarro (Braun & Cie, [1940]), cat. 48 (ill.). Frederick A. Sweet, “Pissarro’s Young Woman Mending,” Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 54, 2 (Apr. 1960), pp. 17–19 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 359. Charles C. Cunningham and Satoshi Takahashi, Shikago bijutsukan [Art Institute of Chicago], Museums of the World 32 (Kodansha, 1970), pp. 48 (ill.), 162–63. John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (Abrams, 1970), pp. 268 (ill.), 285. Raymond Cogniat, Pissarro (Flammarion, 1974), p. 73 (ill.). Christopher Lloyd, Pissarro (Phaidon, 1979), p. 15, pl. 34. Ralph E. Shikes and Paula Harper, Pissarro: His Life and Work (Horizon, 1980), p. 291 (ill.). Christopher Lloyd, Camille Pissarro (Skira/Rizzoli, 1981), p. 98 (ill.). Christopher Lloyd, “Camille Pissarro: Towards a Reassessment,” Art International 25, 1–2 (Jan. 1982), p. 64 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, Seibu Museum of Art, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, and Fukuoka Art Museum, eds., Shikago bijutsukan insho-ha ten [The impressionist tradition: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago], trans. Akihiko Inoue, Hideo Namba, Heisaku Harada, and Yoko Maeda, exh. cat. (Nihon Nippon Television Network, 1985), pp. 104, cat. 49 (ill.); 105 (detail); 154, cat. 49 (ill.). Janine Bailly-Herzberg, ed., Correspondance de Camille Pissarro, vol. 4, 1895–1898 (Valhermeil, 1989), pp. 127 (letter 1181); 129, n. 2; 149 (letter 1199). Art Institute of Chicago, Treasures of 19th- and 20th-Century Painting: The Art Institute of Chicago, with an introduction by James N. Wood (Art Institute of Chicago/Abbeville, 1993), p. 126 (ill.). Joachim Pissarro, Camille Pissarro (Abrams, 1993), p. 169, cat. 179 (ill.). Joachim Pissarro and Stephanie Rachum, Camille Pissarro: Impressionist Innovator, exh. cat. (Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1994), p. 56 (ill.). Joachim Pissarro and Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, with the collaboration of Alexia de Buffévent and Annie Champié, Pissarro: Critical Catalogue of Paintings, vol. 1, trans. Mark Hutchinson and Michael Taylor (Skira/Wildenstein Institute, 2005), pp. 368, 369, 370, 386, 409. Joachim Pissarro and Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, with the collaboration of Alexia de Buffévent and Annie Champié, Pissarro: Catalogue critique des peintures/Critical Catalogue of Paintings, vol. 3, trans. Mark Hutchinson and Michael Taylor (Skira/Wildenstein Institute, 2005), p. 694, cat. 1098 (ill.). Terence Maloon, ed., Camille Pissarro, exh. cat. (Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2005), pp. 207; 208, cat. 98 (ill.); 254. Richard Shiff, “The Restless Worker,” in Terence Maloon, ed., Camille Pissarro, exh. cat. (Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2005), p. 38. Richard Brettell, Pissarro’s People, exh. cat. (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco/Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute/Prestel, 2011), pp. 34–35, fig. 16; 190; 192–93, fig. 147; 268–69, fig. 230. “Cat. 15: Woman Mending, 1895,” in Pissarro Paintings and Works on Paper at the Art Institute of Chicago, eds. Gloria Groom and Genevieve Westerby (Art Institute of Chicago, 2015), https://publications.artic.edu/pissarro/reader/paintingsandpaper/section/8. Christophe Duvivier and Josef Helfenstein, eds., Camille Pissarro: The Studio of Modernism, exh. cat. (Munich Prestel Verlag, 2021), 274 cat. 121, 322.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903)
    Date
    1895
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    65.4 × 54.4 cm (25 5/8 × 21 3/8 in.); Framed: 87.7 × 75 × 10.2 cm (34 1/2 × 29 1/2 × 4 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    oil on canvas
    Style
    Post-Impressionism
    Place
    France
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Gift of Mrs. Leigh B. Block
    Accession no.
    1959.636

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