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Camille Pissarro
Caribbean-born French Pointillist/Impressionist Painter, ca.1830-1903
.Painter and printmaker. He was the only painter to exhibit in all eight of the Impressionist exhibitions held between 1874 and 1886, and he is often regarded as the 'father' of the movement. He was by no means narrow in outlook, however, and throughout his life remained as radical in artistic matters as he was in politics. Thad?e Natanson wrote in 1948: 'Nothing of novelty or of excellence appeared that Pissarro had not been among the first, if not the very first, to discern and to defend.' The significance of Pissarro's work is in the balance maintained between tradition and the avant-garde. Octave Mirbeau commented: 'M. Camille Pissarro has shown himself to be a revolutionary by renewing the art of painting in a purely working sense;
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Painting ID:: 23039
Pere Melon Sawing Wood,Pontoise (nn02)
1879
Oil on canvas
35x45 3/4"
The Robert Holmes a Court Collection,
Perth,Western Australia
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Painting ID:: 27102
Self-Portrait
mk52
1903
Oil on canvas
41x33.3cm
Tate Gallery,London
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Painting ID:: 28505
Boulevard Montaartre
mk60
Paris
1897
Oil on canvas
29x36"
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Painting ID:: 31122
La Sente du chou
mk71
Toile
H.0.57
L.0.92
Douai,Musee de la Chartrese
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Painting ID:: 31369
Spring in Louveciennes
nn07
c. 1870. Oil on canvas. The National Gallery, London, UK
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Camille Pissarro
Caribbean-born French Pointillist/Impressionist Painter, ca.1830-1903
.Painter and printmaker. He was the only painter to exhibit in all eight of the Impressionist exhibitions held between 1874 and 1886, and he is often regarded as the 'father' of the movement. He was by no means narrow in outlook, however, and throughout his life remained as radical in artistic matters as he was in politics. Thad?e Natanson wrote in 1948: 'Nothing of novelty or of excellence appeared that Pissarro had not been among the first, if not the very first, to discern and to defend.' The significance of Pissarro's work is in the balance maintained between tradition and the avant-garde. Octave Mirbeau commented: 'M. Camille Pissarro has shown himself to be a revolutionary by renewing the art of painting in a purely working sense;
. Related Artists to Camille Pissarro: | Jean-Baptiste Peronneau | Pearce, Charles Sprague | Kurt Schwitters | Pagani, Gregorio | Memmo di Filippuccio |
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