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Dimensions: 60 by 73cm., 23 3/4 by 28 3/4 in.
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Provenance: Ruskin Gallery, Birmingham, 1928
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Exhibited: Paris, Galerie Marcel Bernheim, Pissarro et ses Fils, 1924, no.3;
London, Leicester Galleries, Lucien Pissarro, 1924, no.97 (as 'Vue de Lavandou');
London, Grosvenor House, Faculty of Arts Exhibition, 1925;
Dunedin, New Zealand, 1925, no.45;
Aberdeen, Aberdeen Artists' Association, Works of Modern Masters, 1926, no.386 (as 'Vue du Lavandou');
Birmingham, Ruskin Gallery, Lucien Pissarro, 1928, no.1;
London, Imperial Institute Art Gallery, Exhibition of Artists Resident in Great Britain and the Dominions, 1931, no.156.
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Literature: Birmingham Daily Post, 1st February 1928, p.8;
Birmingham Evening Despatch, 20th January 1929;
Anne Thorold, A Catalogue of the Oil Paintings of Lucien Pisarro, Athelney Books, London, 1983, p.168, no.366.
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Notes: Le Lavandou is a small town lying on the southern riviera coast of France, just off the coastal road between Toulon and St. Tropez. Lucien had arrived at Villa Boniol, Bormes-les-Mimosa, near Le Lavandou, on December 29th 1922, just in time to see in the New Year, and he stayed at the villa until the end of April. By May, when he painted the present work, he had established himself at the Grand Hotel, in the town itself, where he was to stay until around the 18th when he returned to London by way of Paris.
The town was a productive source of inspiration throughout the spring: Lucien produced fifteen landscapes depicting his immediate surroundings over this period, at a rate of approximately three a month.
