Provenance

Carfax & Co, London 1915, where acquired by Geoffrey Blackwell OBE Sold Christies London 4 June 2004, where acquired by previous owner. Geoffrey Blackwell (1884-1943) was the principal collector of paintings by the British impressionist Philip Steer. Notes by his friend J.B. Manson also list five works by Pissarro in Blackwell's collection. two of which are now in the Tate Gallery's collection. He also purchased a number of works by members of the NEAC. Pissarro selected the present work painted at his family home in Chiswick, for inclusion in his first one man exhibition in 1913. It is also one of just twelve works exhibited by the artist with the Camden Town Group. London, Carfax & Co, 2nd Camden Town Group Show, December 1911. London, Carfax & Co, Lucien Pissarro, May 1913 London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, 20th Century Art, May/June 1914. Wendy Baron: The Camden Town Group - Scolar Press, London, 1979, p.268 Anne Thorold: A Catalogue of the Oil Paintings of Lucien Pissarro - Athelney Books, London, 1983, p.86. Wendy Baron: Perfect Moderns - A History of the Camden Town Group - Ashgate, Aldershot 2000, p.197