Fishpond Bottom. Lucien Pissarro (1863-1944). 1915. Oil on canvas. H 48.2 x W 59.7 cm. Manchester Art Gallery. Accession number, 1928.97; purchased from Charles Jackson, 1928. Kindly made available via Art UK on the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives licence (CC BY-NC-ND).
Another of Pissarro's views in and around his Dorset retreat. The outlines of the hills are bold and the tall tree flourishing from lower down in their midst seems to nod towards the distant town of Charmouth and, beond that, the sea. — Jacqueline Banerjee
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Bibliography
Jenkins, David Fraser. Catalogue Entry for High View, Fishpond, 1915 (part of "The Camden Town Group in Context" project). Tate. Web. 11 August 2020.
Meadmore, William Sutton. Lucien Pissarro: Un Coeur Simple. New York: Knopf, 1963.
Created 12 August 2020