Bassins Duquesne et Berrigny à Dieppe, temps gris (The Duquesne and Berrigny Basins at Dieppe, Overcast Weather)

Artist Camille Pissarro (French, 1831–1903)

Date1902

Mediumoil on canvas

Dimensionscanvas: 52.1 × 64.8 cm (20 1/2 × 25 1/2 in.)
framed: 75.6 × 86.4 × 9.5 cm (29 3/4 × 34 × 3 3/4 in.)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineStoddard Acquisition Fund in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Stoddard

Terms

Object number1999.67

Label TextPissarro was a core member of the French impressionists—the only one to participate in all eight of the impressionists’ independent exhibitions in Paris—and a mentor to the highly individualist painters Paul Cézanne and Paul Gauguin. Ever experimental and engaged with color theory, Pissarro took to pointillism (painting with many small dots of distinct colors) alongside artists like Seurat and Signac in the 1880s, but ultimately returned to the impressionist brushstroke in later life, as exemplified by the playful, puffy cloud-cover in this canvas, painted the year before he died. As early as the first impressionist exhibition of 1874, critics noted Pissarro’s preference for overcast weather, one suggesting that Pissarro intentionally “selects those sunless but gently luminous days that soften planes and leave to tones all their color values.” ProvenanceDurand Ruel, Paris; Leon Payen, Paris; Fernand Bouisson, President of Chambre des Desputes, Paris; Prince Ernest, Saxony; Knoedler & Co., New York; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stoddard; stolen 1978; Jennifer Cornell; Wolf's Fine Art Auctioneers (Kenneth Bement, Daniel Zivko, Daniel Deitrick)

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