Art Gallery of South Australia buys $4.5 million painting

A French Impressionist painting by Camille Pissarro, titled 'Prairie à Éragny', will soon be the Gallery’s most expensive artwork.
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Image: Camille Pissarro, France, 1830-1903, Prairie à Éragny, 1886, oil on canvas, 59.4 x 73.0.

The piece was recently purchased from Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Art Auction in New York.

‘This landscape by Pissarro is a quintessential French Impressionist landscape – full of vitality and colour, created by Pissarro’s signature dynamic brushwork,’ said Art Gallery of South Australia Director, Nick Mitzevich.

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