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Pilots Jetty Le Havre Morning Cloudy and Misty Weather
Presented by Lucien Pissarro, the artist's son 1948
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<p>Pissarro's last landscapes were of the harbour at Le Havre, where he stayed for three months in a first floor room of a hotel, painting from the balcony. The balcony commanded a fine view of the harbour in three main directions: towards the jetty, towards the pilot's jetty, and in the direction of the outer port. Thus he could work on three pictures, or three series of pictures, recording the changing aspects of these motifs at different times of day and in different weather. The title shows Pissarro's insistence on linking the 'truthfulness' of his scenes to the particular weather conditions of the time of painting.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
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2007-08-28
21 June 2003 – 28 August 2007
2007-08-28
2003-06-21
Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, UK)
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2003-06-21
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4 June 2013 – 15 September 2013
2013-09-15
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Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza (Madrid, Spain)
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CaixaForum Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)
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Camille Pissarro
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2020-06-07
26 November 2016 – 7 June 2020
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2016-11-26
Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/
2016-11-26
Lowry
Collection based display
8 June 2021 – 14 January 2024
2024-01-14
8 July 2021 – 14 November 2021
2021-11-14
2021-07-08
Museum of Art Pudong (Shanghai, China)
20 December 2021 – 8 May 2022
2022-05-08
2021-12-20
Buk-Seoul Museum of Art (Seoul, South Korea)
15 June 2022 – 13 November 2022
2022-11-13
2022-06-15
ACMI (Melbourne, Australia)
25 February 2023 – 25 June 2023
2023-06-25
2023-02-25
Auckland Art Gallery (Auckland, New Zealand)
12 July 2023 – 2 October 2023
2023-10-02
2023-07-12
National Art Center (Tokyo, Japan)
26 October 2023 – 14 January 2024
2024-01-14
2023-10-26
Nakanoshima Museum of Art (Osaka, Japan)
2021-06-08
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The Pilots’ Jetty, Le Havre, Morning, Cloudy and Misty Weather
support: 651 × 813 mm
frame: 870 × 1040 × 110 mm
Presented by Lucien Pissarro, the artist's son 1948
<p>Pissarro's last <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/landscape" title="Glossary definition for 'Landscape'"><span>landscapes</span></a> were of the harbour at  Le Havre, where he stayed for three months in a  first floor room of a hotel, <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> from the  balcony. The balcony commanded a fine view of the  harbour in three main directions: towards the  jetty, towards the pilot's jetty, and in the  direction of the outer port. Thus he could work on  three pictures, or three series of pictures,  recording the changing aspects of these motifs at  different times of day and in different weather.  The title shows Pissarro's insistence on linking  the 'truthfulness' of his scenes to the particular  weather conditions of the time of painting.</p>
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<p><b>Camille Pissarro</b><span> 1830-1903 </span>
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<p><span><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/pissarro-the-pilots-jetty-le-havre-morning-cloudy-and-misty-weather-n05833" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05833</span></a> </span><b>Anse des Pilotes, Le Havre, Matin, Temps gris, brumeux</b><span> (The Pilots' Jetty, Le Havre, Morning, Cloudy and Misty Weather) 1903 </span>
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<p><span>Inscribed 'C. Pissarro. 1903' b.r. and 'Anse des pilotes Havre matin temps gris brumeux' on stretcher</span>
<br/><span>Oil on canvas, 25 5/8 x 32 (65 x 81)</span>
<br/><span>Presented by Lucien Pissarro to the National Gallery 1948; transferred 1953</span>
<br/><i>Prov:</i><span>
Mme Pissarro, Eragny; Lucien Pissarro, London</span>
<br/><i>Exh:</i><span>
</span><i>L'Oeuvre de Camille Pissarro</i><span>, Durand-Ruel, Paris, April 1904 (131); </span><i>Pictures by Camille Pissarro</i><span>, Stafford Gallery, London, October 1911 (6); </span><i>Post-Impressionist and Futurist Exhibition</i><span>, Doré Galleries, London, October 1913 (3); </span><i>Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Camille Pissarro, 1830-1903</i><span>, Leicester Galleries, London, May 1920 (95); </span><i>Modern French Paintings</i><span>, Leicester Galleries, London, September-October 1923 (38); </span><i>Oil Paintings by Camille Pissarro (1830-1903)</i><span>, Tate Gallery, June-October 1931 (10); Birmingham City Art Gallery, October-November 1931 (10); Castle Museum, Nottingham, November-December 1931; War Memorial Art Gallery, Stockport, January 1932 (24); Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, February-March 1932 (23); Bootle Public Museum, April-May 1932 (23); Leeds City Art Gallery, July 1932 (29); Northampton Art Gallery, August-September 1932 (28); Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, September 1932 (28); Rochdale Art Gallery, October-November 1932; </span><i>Paintings by Sisley, Renoir, Pissarro, Monet, Boudin, Cassatt</i><span>, Leicester Galleries, London, April-May 1936 (11, repr.); </span><i>Paintings by Bonnard, Boudin, et al</i><span>. (second edition), Leicester Galleries, London, May-June 1937 (36); on loan to the National Gallery from 1939 until presented</span>
<br/><i>Lit:</i><span>
Robert de la Villehervé, 'Choses du Havre; les Dernières Semaines du Peintre Camille Pissarro' in </span><i>Havre-Eclair</i><span>, 25 September 1904, p.2; Ludovic Rodo Pissarro and Lionello Venturi, </span><i>Camille Pissarro: son Art - son Oeuvre</i><span> (Paris 1939), No.1309, Vol.1, p.262, repr. Vol.2, pl.255; John Rewald (ed.), </span><i>Camille Pissarro: Letters to his son Lucien</i><span> (London 1943), pp.357-9 </span>
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<p><span>Pissarro had executed in 1902 a series of pictures of the harbour at Dieppe and it was then suggested to him by the collector P. Van de Velde that he should also try Le Havre. He arrived there in June 1903 and at the beginning of July took a first-floor room in the Hôtel Continental overlooking the harbour, as his age and infirmities made it inadvisable for him to work out of doors. The window of his room opened on to a balcony which commanded a fine view of the harbour in three main directions: towards the jetty and the semaphore, towards the pilots' jetty, and in the direction of the outer port. Thus he had three pictures, or rather three series of pictures, before him and could record the changing aspects of these motifs at different times of day and in different weather. He worked on a number of <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/canvas" title="Glossary definition for 'Canvas'"><span>canvases</span></a> which he took up again as the circumstances, the hour, the state of the sky and light permitted. By the time of his departure at the end of September, he had executed eighteen <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>paintings</span></a> (Pissarro - Venturi Nos.1298-315), as well as a number of <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawings</span></a>. Nos.1310-13 are close to the present work. </span>
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<p><span>Orovida Pissarro, who watched this picture being painted, told the compiler that her grandfather had great difficulty in making the mast appear upright, and even tried a plumb-line. In the end, however, he got it right by eye. </span>
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<p><span>Lucien Pissarro, the artist's eldest son and the father of Orovida, was granted a Civil List pension early in the Second World War and wrote to Winston Churchill, offering this picture to the nation as a token of gratitude; Churchill replied personally, accepting it. However the National Gallery was not informed at the time and the picture did not formally become part of the National Gallery's collection until 1948, several years after Lucien Pissarro's death. </span>
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<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><span>Ronald Alley, </span><i>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists</i><span>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, pp.614-15, reproduced p.614</span>
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2004-09-15T00:00:00
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adults architecture boat, sailing cities, towns, villages (non-UK) cloud countries and continents crowd figure France groups harbour Havre, Le - non-specific leisure and pastimes mast morning people places recreational activities sea seafront seascapes and coasts society times of the day townscapes / man-made features transport: water walking weather