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Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, L’Oeuvre de C. Pissarro. April 1904, cat. 93, as Femme au bord de l’eau.

New York, E. and A. Silberman Gallery. An Exhibition of Paintings, April - May 1955, cat. 23, as Young Woman Bathing Her Feet in a Brook.

Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago. Treasures of Chicago Collectors, 15 April - 7 May 1961, no cat. no., as Girl Beside a Stream.

Paris, Institute of Fine Arts, 1962.

New York, Wildenstein Gallery, April 1962.

Watham, MA. Brandeis University, 10 May - 13 June 1962.

Chicago, Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 16-21 November, 1963.

Minneapolis, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Paintings from the Cummings Collection January - March 1965, no cat. no.,as Young Woman Bathing Her Feet in a Brook.

New London, Connecticut, Lyman Allen Museum, Paintings and Sculpture from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Cummings, 19 January - 18 February 1968.

Jerusalem, Israel Museum, Camille Pissarro: Impressionist Innovator, 11 October 1994 to 9 January 1995, cat. 92, p. 183 (ill.); traveled to New York, The Jewish Museum, 26 February - 15 July, 1995.

Laren, Netherlands, Singer Museum, The Sara Lee Collection: An Impressionist Legacy, 18 October 1997 - 15 February 1998.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Monet to Moore: The Millenium Gift of Sara Lee Corporation, March 15-May 28, 2000, cat. 39 (ill.); traveled to Singapore Museum of Art Canberra, April 1-May 30, 1999; National Gallery of Australia, June 11-Aug. 22, 1999; Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, September 10-November 7, 1999; Portland Art Museum, November 19, 1999-January 25, 1999.

Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Museum of Art, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–November 2, 2008, cat. 46 (ill.).

Publication History

Venturi. Camille Pissarro : Son Art - Son Oeuvre (Paris, 1939), no. 903, as Le Bain de Pieds.

"In the art market: Nobody doesn't like Mr. Sara Lee," Life Magazine (1970), p.77 (ill).

Christopher Lloyd, Camille Pissarro (New York, 1981), p.119 and dustjacket.

Consolidated Foods Corporation, Consolidated Foods Corporation's Nathan Cummings Collection (Chicago, 1983), p. 7 fig. 1.

Joachim Pissarro, Camille Pissarro (New York, 1992), pl. 13.

Joachim Pissarro, Camille Pissarro (New York, 1993), p. 170. fig. 181.

Richard Brettell, Monet to Moore: The Millenium Gift of Sara Lee Corporation (New Haven, 1999), pp. xi, fig. 7, 152-155 (ill.), cat. no. 39.

Joachim Pissarro et al., Pissarro: Catalogue critique des peintures, vol. 1, trans. Mark Hutchinson, Michael Taylor (Skira and Wildenstein Institute Publications, 2005), pp. 364, 366, 389-90, 393-6, 398, 400, 414, 417, 420-1, cat. 1061, as Le Bain de pieds.

Joachim Pissarro et al., Pissarro: Catalogue critique des peintures, vol. 3, trans. Mark Hutchinson, Michael Taylor (Skira and Wildenstein Institute Publications, 2005), p. 678 (ill.), cat. 1061, as Le Bain de pieds.

The Age of Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven and London, 2008), cat. 46, pp. 104-105 (ill.).

Richard R. Brettell, “The Bathers: Remembering Cézanne,” Pissarro’s People. New York: Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, 2011. p. 280-280, fig. 237.

Ownership History

Albert Pontremoli, Paris by 1904 [according to Paris 1904]; sold at Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 11, 1924, lot 136 to Dr. Janos Plesch, Berlin. Paul Rosenberg and Co., New York by 1939 [according to material prepared by Richard-Raymond Alasko and information provided by Elain Rosenberg, May 2002, see curatorial file; Rosenberg assigned the painting number: 956]; sold to Mrs. John Astor, New York [according to R.R. Alasko, see above]. E. and A. Silberman Gallery, New York; sold to Nathan Cummings (died 1985), Chicago, January 25, 1952; Consolidated Foods Corporation's Nathan Cummings Collection (Sara Lee Corporation), 1980; given by Sara Lee Corporation to the Art Institute, 1999.