SOLEIL COUCHANT, BORMES (MONT DES ROSES), 1926
LUCIEN PISSARRO
oil on canvas
46.0 x 55.5 cm
signed with monogram and dated lower right: 1926
bears inscription on stretcher bar verso: Mont Des / Soleil couchant … 1926
bears inscription on label verso: 4252
Estate of the artist, The Brook, London (the artist’s family home), 1949
Sotheby’s, London, 9 July 1958, lot 129 (as ‘Soleil couchant’)
Gluck, London
Sotheby’s, London, 13 July 1960, lot 61 (as ‘Bormes, Mont des Roses, soleil couchant’)
The Fine Art Society, London
Australian Art Auctions, Sydney, 21 March 1979, lot 139
Kozminsky Gallery, Melbourne
Mrs Felix Behan, Melbourne
Melbourne Fine Art, Melbourne
Julian and Miriam Sterling Collection, Melbourne
Thence by descent
Private collection, Melbourne
Lucien Pissarro, Leicester Galleries, London, June – July 1927, cat. 25 (as ‘Le Mont des Roses at sunset, Bormes’)
New English Art Club, London, 5 – 31 December 1927, cat. 194 (as ‘Les Mont des Roses’)
Lucien Pissarro, Charles A Jackson’s Gallery, Manchester, October 1928, cat. 18 (as ‘Le Mont des Roses, Bormes’)
Lucien Pissarro, Ruskin Gallery, Birmingham, 12 – 31 May 1930, cat. 17 (as ‘Le Mont des Roses, Bormes’)
French Gallery Goupil Gallery Salon, London, June – July 1933, cat. 11 (as ‘Mont des Roses’)
Art Exhibitions Bureau Travelling Exhibition of Oils, Watercolours and Drawings by Lucien Pissarro, Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead, then travelling to Belfast, Gateshead, Rochdale, 1935 – 1936, cat. 57 (as ‘Sunset at Bormes’)
Autumn Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 16 October 1937 – 8 January 1938, cat. 948 (as ’Sunset, Bormes’)
Lucien Pissarro, The Art School, Yeovil, 1941
Artists Aid to Russia Exhibition, Public Art Galleries, Brighton, April – May 1942 (as ‘Sunset, Bormes’)
Three Generations of Pissarro: Camille, Lucien, Orovida, Miller’s for CEMA, Lewes, 27 February – March 1943, cat. 29 (as ‘Soleil couchant, Bormes’)
A Collection of paintings by Lucien Pissarro, Leicester Galleries, London, June – July 1950, cat. 6 (as ‘Soleil couchant, Bormes’)
Three Generations of Pissarro, O’Hana Gallery, London, 22 April –15 May1954, cat. 32 (label attached verso, as ‘Soleil couchant, Bormes’)
Early Years of the NEAC, The Fine Art Society, London, 26 February – 29 March 1968, cat. 86 (label attached verso, as ‘Soleil couchant – Bormes, Mont des Roses, 1927’)
Thorold, A., A Catalogue of the Oil Paintings of Lucien Pissarro, Athelney Books, London, 1983, cat. 427, pp. 188 – 89 (illus.)