Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00009466Fishmarket
About the Artwork
This impressive view of a bustling fish market belongs to a series of paintings that Pissarro made during the summer of 1902 depicting the harbor at Dieppe. Borrowing from the Impressionist method of portraying a modern city from a high vantage point, he enlivened the scene with rich, vibrant colors applied with energetic, broken brushstrokes. Ever concerned with the fleeting effects of atmosphere, Pissarro painted the interpenetration of industrial steam with the clouds in the brilliant, sunlit sky.
Inscriptions
signed and dated lower left: 1902 C. Pissarro
Provenance
Possibly Georges Petit [1856-1920] Paris, France 1918: (possibly sold to dealer Duval-Fleury, Paris, France, February 14, 1918) 1918–1923: Wilhelm Hansen [1868-1936] Copenhagen, Denmark, sold to Baron Kojiro Matsudata 1923–1927: Baron Kojiro Matsukata [1865–1950] Kobe, Japan, sold to the 15th Bank of Japan 1927–1928: The 15th Bank, Tokyo, Japan after 1928–before 1971: Kyuzaemon Wada [1890–1968] Osaka, Japan 1971–1974: (Fujikawa Galleries, Tokyo, Japan, sold to Private Collection) 2003: (sold at Sotheby’s, New York, NY, November 5, 2003, lot 5) 2004: (Acquavella Galleries, New York, NY, sold to Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley) 2004–2020: Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art 2020–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903)
- Date
- 1902
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Unframed: 66 x 81.3 cm (26 x 32 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift
- Accession no.
- 2020.113
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