Connaught Brown
Skip to main content
  • Menu
  • Home
  • Artists
  • Exhibitions
  • Viewing Room
  • Art Fairs
  • News
  • About
  • Contact
Menu
  • Current
  • Past

Renoir and Pissarro | Different Views

Past exhibition
21 June - 21 July 2023
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Camille Pissarro, Bateaux à quai, 1894
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Camille Pissarro, Bateaux à quai, 1894

Camille Pissarro

Bateaux à quai, 1894
Watercolour over pencil on paper laid down on board
5 1/4 x 7 1/8 in, 13.2 x 18.1 cm
Signed 'C. Pissarro' lower left
Enquire
%3Cdiv%20class%3D%22artist%22%3ECamille%20Pissarro%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv%20class%3D%22title_and_year%22%3E%3Cspan%20class%3D%22title_and_year_title%22%3EBateaux%20%C3%A0%20quai%3C/span%3E%2C%20%3Cspan%20class%3D%22title_and_year_year%22%3E1894%3C/span%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv%20class%3D%22medium%22%3EWatercolour%20over%20pencil%20on%20paper%20laid%20down%20on%20board%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv%20class%3D%22dimensions%22%3E5%201/4%20x%207%201/8%20in%2C%2013.2%20x%2018.1%20cm%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv%20class%3D%22signed_and_dated%22%3ESigned%20%27C.%20Pissarro%27%20lower%20left%3C/div%3E

Further images

  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) Camille Pissarro, Paysanne portant des seaux, 1889
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) Camille Pissarro, Paysanne portant des seaux, 1889
Depicting water had always been a fascination of the Impressionists. Encompassing much of what they sought to express through their art, water was a means for the artists to experiment...
Read more
Depicting water had always been a fascination of the Impressionists. Encompassing much of what they sought to express through their art, water was a means for the artists to experiment with the effects of light and colour, creating an ‘impression’ of what they saw in that very moment. Many artists took to watercolour, for in being semi-translucent, was the perfect medium to portray the effect of shifting light. In ‘Bateaux à quai’, Pissarro uses an array of blue, mauve and orange tones to convey the reflections on the water.

Camille Pissarro arrived in Brussels with his wife Julie and son Félix on 25 June 1894, and did not return to France for over three months. He did not stay long in Brussels, leaving very quickly for first Bruges and then the seaside resort of Knokke where his friend Théo Van Rysselberghe had a villa. 'Bateaux à quai' is a rare depiction of one of Belgium’s harbours. He wrote to his son Lucien of how “All I have done so far is make a few watercolours; the country is remarkably beautiful”.

Unlike in his paintings of the industrial Norman ports, in ‘Bateaux à quai’ the artist celebrates tranquillity and the enjoyment of nature for leisure. The watercolour is imbued with a sense of serenity and warmth through the sail boats gently floating on the river with the town in the distance.
Close full details

Provenance

Sotheby’s, London, Impressionist Part II, 27 June 2001, lot 101

Private Collection (purchased at the above)

Literature

This work is accompanied by a letter of expertise signed by Dr Joachim Pissarro and dated 25 July 2023 confirming it will be included in the forthcoming Camille Pissarro catalogue raisonné of drawings currently being compiled by Dr Pissarro

Share
  • Facebook
  • X
  • Pinterest
  • Tumblr
  • Email
Previous
|
Next
14 
of  28
Back to Past exhibitions

 

Manage cookies
Copyright © 2022 www.connaughtbrown.co.uk Connaught Brown PLC
Site by Artlogic

This website uses cookies
This site uses cookies to help make it more useful to you. Please contact us to find out more about our Cookie Policy.

Manage cookies
Accept

Cookie preferences

Check the boxes for the cookie categories you allow our site to use

Cookie options
Required for the website to function and cannot be disabled.
Improve your experience on the website by storing choices you make about how it should function.
Allow us to collect anonymous usage data in order to improve the experience on our website.
Allow us to identify our visitors so that we can offer personalised, targeted marketing.
Save preferences