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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:: 38827 The Gardener,Afternoon Sun,Eragny
mk141
1899
Oil on canvas
92x65cm
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Painting ID:: 60715 Woman under the bean frame
mk259 1891 Oil on canvas 55 x 46 cm
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Painting ID:: 40729 The Marne at Chennevieres
mk156
1864
Oil on canvas
91.5x145.5cm
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Painting ID:: 40843 Place du theatre francais a paris
mk156
1898
Oil on canvas
65.5x81.5cm
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Painting ID:: 41088 Boulevard Montmartre in Paris
mk159
1897
Oil on canvas
73x92cm
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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: | Simon Pietersz Verelst | Luca Penni | CATARINO | Henri Toulouse-Lautrec | Jean Baptiste Gautier Dagoty |
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